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Dolores
Aug 28, 2001, 1:37:10 AM8/28/01
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I recently wondered where we got the term: "salad days".
Tonight I came across the following:
Tonight I came across the following:
"First, we look at salad days, a term meaning 'a period of youthful inexperience
or indiscretion.' William Shakespeare coined that term in Antony and Cleopatra
when he had Cleopatra dismiss her youthful love for Julius Caesar with the line
'My salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood.' Perhaps because
those youthful days are sometimes viewed nostalgically, the term salad days has
also come to mean with 'heyday' or 'an early flourishing period.'"
-From: Merriam-Webster's "Word For The Wise" series
at http://www.m-w.com/wftw/01jul/072501.htm
---Dolores
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