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Salad days

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A time of youth, innocence, and inexperience: “my salad days,/When I was green in judgment, cold in blood” (Shakespeare).

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معنى التعبير:
The days of one's youthful inexperience
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اصل التعبير:
From Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra, 1606:0
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CLEOPATRA: My salad days
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood
To say as I said then! But, come, away
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The time of youth, innocence, and inexperience, as in Back in our salad days we went anywhere at night, never thinking about whether it was safe or not. This expression, alluding to the greenness of inexperience, was probably invented by Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra (1:5), when Cleopatra, now enamored of Antony, speaks of her early admiration for Julius Caesar as foolish: "My salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood."
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So the phrase came to mean “a period of youthful inexperience or indiscretion”, though it only became popular from the middle of the nineteenth century on
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