ain't what it used to was

Meaning: (colloquial,idiomatic)Is not what it used to be;(expressingnostalgia).1852,Harper's New Monthly Magazine: Volume 5‎[1], Harper & Brothers, page848:Thanksgiving 'ain't what it used to was.'1862, Albany Fonblanque, chapter XXIV, inThe St. James's Magazine: Volume 5‎[2], Houlston & Wright, A Tangled Skein: A Romance, page180:Your memoryain't what it used to was, my man, or what it ought to be.1920October 23, Ellis Parker Butler, “A Pastoral”, inJudge (a satirical magazine):Then Grandmother snuffled a teardropAnd said. "It is jest like I suzT’ th’ parson—Grandfather’s liverAin’t what it used to was."1948December 17,The Winonan‎[3], volume XXX, number 3, Winona State Teachers College, Winona, Minn., page 2: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, "Itain't what it used to was!"

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