"in the day"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just "in the day."

FWIW, there was once a mildly - if you weren't a woman, at least -
anti-woman expression,

"Way back when mother was girl"

meaning, like, maybe, a hundred years before the then-present day,
e.g., ca. 1840. These days, I use only "way back when."
--
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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