Noun
Period of calm during the winter, when storms do not occur.
(idiomatic) A period of calm, usually in the past and often nostalgic.
halcyon days of yore
halcyon days of youth
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership. Robert Gilpin
What an age of innocence it was, the Watergate era... way back in the halcyon days when the US could be contrasted with totalitarian regimes on matters of surveillance. Barrett Brown
He wrote the Father Brown tales to invoke those halcyon days, despite the fact that all the Father Brown stories take place in the age of telephones and automobiles. Source: Internet
Many of those who remembered wistfully the halcyon days of Mr Russell's leadership found that the new incumbent did not fulfill their expectations of a saintly leader. Source: Internet
A return to those halcyon days of schoolchildren hiding under their desks, building fallout shelters in the yard, stockpiling canned goods and arguing about the ethics of shooting desperate neighbors who’d failed to construct their own hideaways? Source: Internet
AS Padraig Harrington turned the clock back to halcyon days with a fighting three-under-par 67, World No 1 Rory McIlroy stirred painful memories during a nightmare start to the Honda Classic. Source: Internet