A period of unusually mild feelings, especially immediately following the start of a new term or relationship (e.g. a newly elected politician or a new business arrangement)
Now that the honeymoon is over, it’s time for us to get down to the business at hand.
You can use honeymoon to refer to a period of time after the start of a new job or new government when everyone is pleased with the person or people concerned and is nice to them. Brett is enjoying a honeymoon period with both press and public. to go somewhere for your honeymoon
A period of unusually good feelings, especially immediately following the start of a new relationship (e.g., in business). Now that the honeymoon is over, it's time for us to get down to the business at hand
a holiday taken by a newly married couple the early usually calm and harmonious period of a relationship; business or political spend a holiday after one's marriage; "they plan to honeymoon in Hawai'i
{f} go on a honeymoon, vacation together after a wedding (about a newly married couple)
The month after marriage, or so much of it as is spent away from home; so called from the practice of the ancient Teutons of drinking honey-wine (hydromel) for thirty days after marriage Attila, the Hun, indulged so freely in hydromel at his wedding-feast that he died "It was the custom of the higher order of the Teutons to drink mead or metheglin (a beverage made from honey) for thirty days after every wedding From this comes the expression `to spend the honeymoon ' " - W Pulleyn: Etymological Compendium, 8, 9, p 142 Honeywood A yea-nay type, illustrative of what Dr Young says: "What is mere good nature but a fool?" (Goldsmith: The Good-natured Man )