the olden time



long ago, old days, old story, old times, yore ,

   burned-out - devitalized, disabled, drained, effete, enervated, enfeebled, exhausted, fatigued, incapacitated, played out, run down, sapped, spent, used up, wasted,

   fair words - adulation, blandishment, blarney, bunkum, butter, compliment, eyewash, fawning, glibness, grease, incense, oil, palaver, praise, smugness,

   break boundary - bound, boundary, ceiling, circumscription, compass, confine, cut-off, deadline, delimitation, determinant, end, extremity, finish, floor, frontier,

   wondrousness - fascination, mystery, prodigiousness, wonderfulness ,

   footfall - clop, footstep, hop, jump, pace, skip, step, stride, tramp, tread ,

   logicality - admissibility, common sense, logic, plausibility, rationality, reason, sense, soundness ,

   act of courtesy - amenity, attention, civility, courtesy, favour ,

   make an inroad - advance, board, encroach, foray, go too far, infringe, intrude, inundate, invade, irrupt, know no bounds, overstep, overwhelm, raid, scale,

   come first - front, go ahead, go before, head, head up, kick off, lead, lead off, outrank, precede, rank, rate, star, usher in ,

   porker - barrow, boar, gilt, hog, pig, piglet, sow, swine ,