Meaning & use

salad days

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A period of youthful inexperience, or nostalgically, the carefree, thriving days of one's youth or a golden early period.

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In his salad days, he backpacked across Europe with no plans and little money.

The band's salad days in the late nineties produced their most beloved songs.

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The phrase originates from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and is now used mainly to evoke nostalgic memories of an earlier, often more vibrant, period.

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