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salad days

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. A period of inexperienced youthful innocence accompanied by enthusiasm and idealism.

    • 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[…]
    • But it must be in solitude. I do not need or desire to hobnob artificially with other old men in order to revisit them in their salad days, and to renew my own.

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