salad days

Examples of salad days in a sentence

• 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.1874 October, “Salad Days”, in The American Educational Monthly, page 462:
• 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.1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic:
• He was telling me he occasionally pinched a cracker or two in his salad days.”1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
• I used to be quite the dancer in my salad days, if you can believe such a thing.2015, 23m30s from the start, in Penny Dreadful, season 2, episode 6, spoken by Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton):

Origin of salad days

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

Questions about salad days

What does salad days mean?

Salad days means a period of inexperienced youthful innocence accompanied by enthusiasm and idealism.

How do you use salad days in a sentence?

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.

What part of speech is salad days?

Salad days is a noun.