Where Does Salad Days Come from?
The Phrase Was Coined in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in 1606. in the Speech at the End of Act One in Which Cleopatra Is Regretting Her Youthful...
The phrase was coined in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in 1606. In the speech at the end of Act One in which Cleopatra is regretting her youthful dalliances with Julius Caesar she says: ... My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood/To say as I said then!
Where did the term salad days come from?
The first English writer known to use "salad days" to associate the fresh greenness of salad with the vigor and recklessness of youth was William Shakespeare. In Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra praises Marc Antony's valor and demands that her serving woman do the same.
What does these are the salad days mean?
A youthful, carefree time of innocence and inexperience. The phrase comes from a line in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: "My salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood." Ah, to be in love in your salad days—such blissful and carefree times!
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