days of wine and roses
Americannoun
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“The days of wine and roses that you charged to us are hereby ended. Understood? The dance hall is closed. I’ve sent the waiters home … The ice sculpture has melted.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2022
Officials who had worked with him, older now, recalled a sentence from Mr. Carey’s 1975 inaugural address: “Now the times of plenty, the days of wine and roses, are over.”
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2011
Declaring that New York state had been “living far beyond our means,” he told the legislature in his first State of the State speech that “the days of wine and roses are over.”
From BusinessWeek • Aug. 7, 2011
The new Governor insists, in his friendly way, that "the times of plenty, the days of wine and roses, are over."
From Time Magazine Archive
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