Meaning of ain't what it used to was | Babel Free

Definitions

Is not what it used to be; (expressing nostalgia).

colloquial, idiomatic

Examples

“Thanksgiving 'ain't what it used to was.'”

“Your memory ain't what it used to was, my man, or what it ought to be.”

“Then Grandmother snuffled a teardrop And said. "It is jest like I suz T’ th’ parson—Grandfather’s liver Ain’t what it used to was."”

“With a few more years to procrastinate, as we used to say of the old gray mare, we'll be able to say of the elementary schools, "It ain't what it used to was!"”

CEFR level