days of wine and roses

American  

noun

1. a period of happiness and prosperity.

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Example Sentences

“Medicine Show” was “Radio Ethiopia” in terms of the sonic and energetic fields it encompassed compared to the band’s debut, “The Days of Wine and Roses,” which gave them their spot in the New American Underground.

From Salon

And we end the interview on a philosophical note - as he recites "They are not long, the days of wine and roses" from an Ernest Dowson poem and muses on the fleeting nature of life.

From BBC

Craig Lucas, an award-winning playwright drawn to musicals, took on the challenge of adapting with composer and lyricist Adam Guettel “Days of Wine and Roses,” which I saw last year off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company’s Linda Gross Theater.

From Los Angeles Times

As New York magazine theater critic Sara Holdren recently wrote of new musical “Days of Wine and Roses,” “If the show — if any show — strikes someone, somewhere, for some reason, to the heart, well, so shines a good deed in a weary world,” and she’s right.

From Seattle Times

It is carried almost entirely by O’Hara and James, who met on the short-lived 2002 musical “Sweet Smell of Success” and, for the last decade or so, have been meeting regularly as they developed “Days of Wine and Roses.”

From New York Times