Salad days

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A period of inexperienced youthful innocence accompanied by enthusiasm and idealism. idiomatic, plural, plural-only

    "Cleo. Did I Charmian, euer loue Caeſar ſo? […] Char. By your moſt gracious pardon, I ſing but after you. Cleo. My Sallad dayes, When I was greene in iudgment, cold in blood[…]"

  2. 2
    the best time of youth wordnet

Etymology

Coined by William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra around 1607, see quotations.

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