"in the day"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> By strange coincidence (and I'm not kidding) a friend of mine used the
> expression this morning.  I was so surprised that I didn't whip out my
> notebook and interrogate, but I doubt that he got it from Dr. Zorba:
>
> "They were really havin' a high old time in the day!"

Hard to search for this pattern, but these exx seem to fit:

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http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/06/americas-future-now-progressives-plan.html
I remember her 'in the day' when she was the darling of the local
country club Republicans.
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http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/02/02/information-revolution-digital-revolution/
How many of you remember checking out filmstrips "in the day" and not
being able to find the "blackline masters?"
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http://www.networkcomputing.com/next-gen-network/interop-data-center-chair-jim-metzler-on-networking.php
There was a time not so long ago when Interop was all about
networking, with entire tracks on one networking technology. I can
remember ATM, in the day, and 5-6 sessions just on ATM.
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--bgz


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