in my day

Related to word: day

Idiom

Definition

  1. during my youth or the past era; when I was younger

    • Kids take so much for granted nowadays; in my day, a new bike was a real treasure.

    • "Young people today don't know what hardship is," my grandfather said. "In my day, we had it much tougher."

    • In my day, we had to walk to school, rain or shine," she reminisced.