time of one's life

1. An extremely pleasurable experience; see under of one's life.

Example Sentences

The second experience was watching my children enter their 20s, allegedly the best time of one’s life; observing and trying to support them in their struggles has brought back the memory of my own 20s more intensely, and how terribly hard those times are; and how much harder we make them by telling them to savour the best years of their lives.

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By describing what is usually the hardest time of one’s life as the best one, we make the time harder for those who are going through it.

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You might like to know that Patti Smith is in the house: she’s the vatic crooner on the discursive final track “Blue,” in which Mr. Stipe performs a stream-of-consciousness poem, voicing the concerns of a certain time of one’s life.

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“Work takes up most of the time of one’s life,” she said.

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Clubs and gigs may be remembered as great because they coincide with a heady, hormonal time of one’s life, or they may truly have been great.

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