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feel like old times
feel familiar and enjoyable again
To feel as familiar and enjoyable as a happy period in the past.
Hear it in real life
Was it strange seeing your university friends again?
Not at all - it felt like old times.
Once everyone arrived, the family dinner felt like old times.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: It felt like the old time.
Say: It felt like old times.
Use plural "times" without "the" in this fixed expression.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
feel like old times; it felt like old times
Your turn: say it out loud
Once everyone arrived, the family dinner felt like old times.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
feel like old times
feel familiar and enjoyable again
“Once everyone arrived, the family dinner felt like old times.”
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