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salad days
noun plural
: the period of life when someone is young and does not have much experience
: an early period of success
Full 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
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1606
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