salad days
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salad days

noun plural

Definition of SALAD DAYS

: time of youthful inexperience or indiscretion <my salad days when I was green in judgment — Shakespeare>; also : an early flourishing period : heyday

Examples of SALAD DAYS

  1. <he worked for NASA in its salad days>

First Known Use of SALAD DAYS

1606

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