Salad days
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 the best time of youth wordnet
Example
More examples"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[…]"
Etymology
Coined by William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra around 1607, see quotations.