English

Noun

peace in our time

1. A paraphrase of or misattribution to Neville Chamberlain, who stated that "peace for our time" would be the result of the Munich Agreement of 1938.
   • 1707, Church of England, The Book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, ...‎:

     Priest: Give peace in our time, O Lord; / Answer: Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God.

2. Used to evoke the situation where an aggressor is being appeased for the sake of delaying a (possibly inevitable) war
3. Used to evoke the idea of false political promises and false expectations.

See also

• peace for our time
• Peace for our time on Wikipedia.Wikipedia