Meaning of piping times | Babel Free

Definitions

A pleasant era.

archaic, idiomatic, plural, plural-only

Examples

“One of the current melodrama uses on the hoardings a four-sheet poster showing the picture of a motherly old woman with a baby in her arms. She is saying: "Well, I guess the country will be saved without me for awhile. I'll look after baby." That's about the attitude of the nursers of business in these piping times of politics.”

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