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That's a good innings and we had a good time.
She's gone and she had a good innings, too.
Still, as the English would say, Curtis had a good innings."
At least he had a good innings).
'We've had a good innings here, let's not spoil it.'
"I had a good innings and I just thought, I want to be at home now," said the actor.
'Thank you, he had a good innings,' Abraham replies and turns and speaks directly to Victoria.
'Still,' said Stella, 'she had a good innings.'
Had a good innings It looks as though Ian Butcher may be forced to retire because of injury at the age of 226.
if you've had a good innings.
But fair enough, I had had a good innings: mustn't grumble as our old gardener used to say. . . . Let me see.
If now at the age of fifty-two my flying days were over, well, I had had a good innings, and flying days were ending for all amateurs.
According to Harrod, "the production potter of the Harrow type had a good innings well into the seventies", by which time the market for this style of pottery was falling away.
Cricket has had an influence on the lexicon of these nations, especially the English language, with such phrases as "that's not cricket" (unfair), "had a good innings", "sticky wicket", and "bowled over".
By extension, this term can be used in British English for almost any activity which takes a period of time (The Liberal government had a good innings, but finally lost office in 1972, or You've had a fair innings, now it's my turn, meaning "you have spoken for long enough, now let me speak").