memory lane

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)An imaginary path along which one can take anostalgicorsentimentaljourneythrough one'smemoriesof thepast.The speaker took us on a trip downmemory lanewith his recollections of village life fifty years ago.1894December, B[urton]M. Balch, “Memory Lane. A New Year’s Study.”, in Burton M. Balch, editor,Hamilton Literary Monthly, volume29, number 3, Clinton, N.Y.: Published by the students,Hamilton College,→OCLC,page101,102:This isMemory Lane—lonely and drear to some, pleasant and gay to others. ... It was New Year's day in the old town, the most hallowed of holidays onMemory Lane; the day when the wharf was deserted, for everyone, great and small, walked over the Lane, many even to the very end.1954May,Peter De Vries, chapter 3, inThe Tunnel of Love, Boston, Mass.:Little, Brown and Company, publishedJuly 1954,→OCLC,page25:“How about a stroll downMemory Lane. Remember this?” He thrust a picture at me.1987, Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce, “My Earliest Recollections”, inA Beautiful, Cruel Country, Tucson, Ariz.:University of Arizona Press,→ISBN,page42:My “memory lane” is splotched with recollections that have not dimmed or faded in the last seventy-five years. They stand out clear and sharp, but they are splotches just the same. They have no beginning, nor do they trail off to an ending. They are just there like ink splotches on a white wall.1989,Margaret Maron,Corpus Christmas(A Crime Club Book), Warner Books edition, New York, N.Y.:Mysterious Press, published2001,→ISBN, page255:Sigrid took a bittersweet trip downmemory lanewhen Anne opened the carton of ornaments and lifted out a crumpled tinsel star. All at once she was three years old again and her father was holding her up in his strong arms to place that same star on the very top of their Christmas tree.1989, Larry L. Meyer, “August 16: An Irish Wedding Revisited”, inMy Summer with Molly: The Journal of a Second Generation Father, Huntington Beach, Calif.: Calafia Press,→ISBN,page146:Molly sleeps this morning as her parents, per their promise, travel downmemory lanefrom their just-delivered leather sofa. Tim and I have memory-goaders galore, including our album of wedding photos, two separate videotapes of the marriage ceremony, and some random 35-millimeter slides one or the other of us somehow managed to squeeze off that strange and signal day exactly one year and four days ago.1994,Raphael Samuel, “Dreamscapes”, inTheatres of Memory, volumes 1 (Past and Present in Contemporary Culture), London; New York, N.Y.:Verso Books,→ISBN, part V (Old Photographs),page351:A more straightforwardly nostalgic use of the family album is in oral history, which has used them as a device for family reconstitution and opening upmemory lanes.2020December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail, page67:I decide to take in one last trip for the day - and one very much downmemory lane. Changing trains at Central, I board a Class 150 bound forBarry Island, where I have not been for 46 years.

Examples:

EN: Is that his line, down memory lane?
ES: Así que te ha soltado un rollo de recuerdos.
EN: It's good sometime to go down memory lane.
ES: A veces es bueno recorrer la avenida de la memoria.
EN: Well, here we go. Down memory lane.
ES: Pues, aquí vamos... al camino de los recuerdos.
EN: C'mon, Eduardo. Are you walking down the memory lane?
ES: Vamos, Eduardo. ¿Estás recorriendo el sendero de la memoria?
EN: If you insist on clumping down memory lane, would you do it, please, more quietly?
ES: Si insistes en escarbar en la memoria, ¿te importaría hacerlo más bajo?
EN: At this time, the old south takes a trip down memory lane.
ES: - Untranslated subtitle -
EN: I left the Mad Hatter and decided to take a trip down memory lane past room 313.
ES: 'Dejé el Sombrerero Loco y decidí hacer un viaje por el carril de la memoria más allá de la habitación 313.
EN: If you want to stroll down memory lane, my love, we could spend an entire evening on the Shell gas station attendant.
ES: Si quieres pasear por el camino de los recuerdos, mi amor, podríamos pasar toda una noche en el encargado de la gasolinera de Shell.
EN: talk about walking down memory lane.
ES: Hablando de recuerdos.
EN: A trip down memory lane. And you?
ES: Volver atrás. ¿Y usted?
EN: You broke cherry on me. Not the time to go down memory lane, Carl.
ES: No es hora de hacer memoria.
EN: Bob, are you ready for our little trip down memory lane?
ES: Bob, ¿estás preparado para nuestro recorrido del pasado?
EN: We wanna take you for a little trip down memory lane.
ES: Los llevaremos a un pequeño viaje por el camino de los recuerdos.
EN: I'm falling apart and you go down memory lane with your silly jazz.
ES: Me derrumbo y usted se dedica a pensar en música jazz.
EN: La Guardia's been waltzing her down memory lane.
ES: La Guardia ha estado recorriéndola por el camino de sus recuerdos.

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