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"Salad days" is a Shakespearean idiom referring to a period of carefree innocence, idealism, and pleasure associated with youth. The modern use, chiefly in the United States, describes a heyday, when a person is/was at the peak of their abilities, while not necessarily a youth.

Salad days - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia English-language idiom For other uses, see Salad Days (disambiguation) . " Salad days " is a Shakespearean idiom referring to a period of carefree innocence, idealism , and pleasure associated with youth. The modern use describes a heyday, when a person is/was at the peak of their abilities, while not necessarily a youth. History [ edit ] The phrase is attributed to William Shakespeare, who made the first known use of it in the 1606 play Antony and Cleopatra . [ 1 ] In the speech at the end of act one in which Cleopat

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