Salad Days
- noun
An idiomatic expression, referring to a youthful time, accompanied by the inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence, or indiscretion that one associates with a young person. The phrase was probably invented by my hero, 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."
- modern meaning
a person’s heyday, when they are at the peak of their abilities – that sparkle feeling you get when eat a salad every day!