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Meanings of old times in English

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Past times remembered with nostalgia.

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Usage of old times in English
1
I make it a point to feed deserters, for old times' sake.
The Great Book of Amber
2
The old times are as fresh in my mind as in yours.
The Life of Froude
3
But in the good, old times, the capital had not much head.
Les Misérables
4
In these old times, the Mohawk Indians were still numerous in Pennsylvania.
True Stories of History and Biography
5
I think over the old times so, sitting here in the dark.
Miss Prudence: A Story of Two Girls' Lives.
6
This Betty Moody was a woman of the island in old times.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
7
Just like old times-buta second later, a bleak thought chilled him.
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
8
The old ways and the old times were good enough for her.
The Story of a Bad Boy
9
But it has come round again, I think for old times' sake.
The Guardian
10
I decided to go down to the shore, for old times' sake.
Sister Mine
11
Can you imagine a nine-year- old listening to us talk about old times?
Do you take this rebel?
12
Maybe I should have had a go myself, for old times' sake...'
The ice princess
13
Patterson belonged to those old times when peace had reigned in Friendship.
Mr. Pat's Little Girl: A Story of the Arden Foresters
14
I think she used to sing very nicely in the old times.'
Beechcroft at Rockstone
15
He quit recalling old times and sacred memories to the New Yorker.
Somewhere in Red Gap
16
But you must not mind it, for the sake of old times.
Olive: A Novel
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Translations for old times
Old times through the time
Old times across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Less common