salad days
IPA: sˈæɫʌdeɪz
noun
- A period of inexperienced youthful innocence accompanied by enthusiasm and idealism.
Examples of "salad-days" in Sentences
- My salad-days, when I was green of visage and sea-sick, being gone with better things (and no worse), no coming event cast its shadow before.
- Indeed, the tech-boomy/zero deficit/red-hot economy of the Clinton Years was downright odious compared to these salad-days at the dawn of the 21st Century.