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wilderness years
idiom
a period of time when someone, such as a politician, no longer has a position of authority, fame, or success and is not in the news:
His wilderness years in the Eighties were spent mainly in Los Angeles.
Nixon was defeated in his bid for the presidency by the even younger John F. Kennedy, a loss which led him into the "wilderness years."
The album was praised by critics but it heralded the start of the band's wilderness years.
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