salad days
Time of innocence
Salad days are times of youth and inexperience, when one is green and naive.
The phrase comes from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, where Cleopatra dismisses her earlier feelings as belonging to my salad days, when I was green in judgment.
The expression often carries nostalgia: In my salad days, I thought I could change the world.
- youthState of being immature
- tender yearsEarly childhood period
- greenColor of vegetation
- fresh facedYouthful in appearance
- coming-of-ageYouth becoming adulthood
coming of age · heyday · bloom · halcyon · callow · wet behind the ears · inexperience · adolescence · wild oats · zenith · fledgling · naivety · jejune · first bloom · innocence · Antony · pinnacle · bygone
- food idiomspiece of cake, bread winner, low-hanging fruit, cool as a cucumber, bad egg
- youth sayingsfountain of youth, spring chicken, tender age, young at heart, forever young
- golden daysgolden age, golden era, golden period, golden years, good times
- Literary Phrasesto be or not to be, carpe diem, et tu Brute, call me Ishmael, once upon a time
- agingaging process, aging body, biological age, aging workforce, aging parents
- maturityadulthood, immature, come of age, ripe, unripe
salad daysold age
Advanced years of life
ripe old age · golden years · maturity · twilight years · dotage
salad dayswisdom
Good judgment from experience
experience · worldliness · sagacity · sophistication · discernment
salad daysfinal days
Concluding period
last days · end of days · sunset years · eleventh hour · home stretch