salad days

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salad days

pl.n.

A time of youth, innocence, and inexperience: "my salad days,/When I was green in judgment, cold in blood" (Shakespeare).

[Coined by William Shakespeare.]

salad days

pl n

a period of youth and inexperience

[allusion to Antony and Cleopatra (1.v.73) by William Shakespeare: ``my salad days When I was green in judgment, cold in blood'']

salad days - Those when one is green in judgment, young and inexperienced.

See also related terms for salad.

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Noun

salad days - the best time of youth

bloom of youth, bloom

time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state

youth - the time of life between childhood and maturity

Translations

salad days npl (liter) → anni mpl verdi
in my salad days → quand'ero giovane e inesperto

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