Meaning of salad days | Babel Free

Definitions

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

idiomatic, plural, plural-only

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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[…]”

“The season of salad days has been rightly called a season of folly—rightly, because nature wisely intended salad days for folly, and we are wise to regard them as a time for folly. But are we wise when, halting upon the crutches age finds convenient after the gambols of youth have⟳ lost their attractions, we condemn this season of harmless folly to perpetual reprobation?”

“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⟳.”

““I'll bet⟳ he was swiping things as a small boy.” “Only biscuits.” “I beg⟳ your pardon?” “Or crackers you would call⟳ them, wouldn't you? He was telling me he occasionally pinched a cracker or two in his salad days.””

“Do you know⟳ I've not been to a ball in ages? I used to be quite the dancer in my salad days, if you can believe⟳ such a thing.”

“Liz: Derek, remember⟳ when I used to want⟳ to fuck all the time? Derek: Ah, yes. The salad days. Liz: Mmh. Now, my sex window is between 3 and 3:20 pm and Derek needs not to have⟳ annoyed me that day. Derek: Doesn't happen⟳ often.”

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