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the halcyon days
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the halcyon days  (literary)
a very happy or successful period in the past
Usage notes: Halcyon days are two weeks of good weather during the winter when the days are the shortest in the year.
(often + of ) She recalled the halcyon days of childhood. That was in the halcyon days of the 1980's when the economy was booming.
See also: days


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