| 释义 |
salad daysRelated to salad days: Halcyon Days salad daysA youthful, carefree time of innocence and inexperience. The phrase comes from a line in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: "My salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood." Ah, to be in love in your salad days—such blissful and carefree times! Whenever I ask my grandfather the meaning of a word I hear on TV, he always laughs and says he'll tell me when I'm no longer in my salad days. See also: days, salad Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. salad daysThe time of youth, innocence, and inexperience, as in Back in our salad days we went anywhere at night, never thinking about whether it was safe or not . This expression, alluding to the greenness of inexperience, was probably invented by 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." See also: days, salad The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. your salad days LITERARYIf you talk about your salad days, you mean the time when you were young and had little experience. The Grand Hotel did not seem to have changed since her salad days. Note: This is a quotation from Shakespeare's `Antony and Cleopatra' (Act 1, Scene 5), when Cleopatra is talking about her youth: `My salad days, When I was green in judgment'. See also: days, salad Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. your salad days 1 the period when you are young and inexperienced. 2 the peak or heyday of something. This is a quotation from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Cleopatra is commenting on her previous relationship with Julius Caesar: ‘My salad days, When I was green in judgement, cold in blood To say as I said then!’ See also: days, salad Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary your ˈsalad days (old-fashioned) the time when you are young and do not have much experience of life: Back in my salad days my friends and I used to go dancing every Saturday night.This comes from Shakespeare’s play Antony and Cleopatra.See also: days, salad Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary salad days, one'sInexperienced youth, when one is still very green (i.e., unripe). The term comes from Shakespeare, who probably coined it: “My salad days, when I was green in judgement: cold in blood” (Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5). See also: salad The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer salad daysA time of youthful inexperience and carefree pleasures, usually looked back on with nostalgia. The phrase came from Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra, in which the Queen of the Nile reflected on “My salad days / When I was green in judgment: cold in blood . . .” See also: days, salad Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price See also:- in (one's) salad days
- in salad days
- salad days, one's
- your salad days
- salad years
- salad
- cold heart, a
- while away the time
- while the time away
- while away
References in periodicals archive Salad Days has been pioneering with innovations be it in food, packaging or communication with customers. Salad Days - The healthy food delivery start-up expands operations to Noida But, when the need arises, Salad Days uses beneficial insects, like ladybugs and lacewings, to combat the harmful ones instead of using harsh chemical pesticides. Green industry in Mississippi grossed $175 million in 2017 Other more tuneless wonders in the capital face endless salad days of a more literal kind though; an eternal diet of rotten tomatoes, cucumbers and spuds. Salad days a woman's salad days are shorter than a man's--really, in this precise context, only from about 15 to 20." Within an hour of the item's posting on our blog, a conservative blogger wrote in to ask: "Dude. Derb dish The Dole Nutrition Institute, the nutrition research and educational foundation established by Dole Food Company Inc., has a new "School Salad Days" pilot program in California public schools, to encourage healthy eating and promote daily fruit and vegetable consumption. Dole donates salad Siegel subjects us to reminiscences about the left-liberal salad days of FDR and Fiorella LaGuardia that would shame the New York TV schmaltzmaster Joe "Memory Lane" Franklin; elsewhere he assumes that we'll give weight to the disillusionment of lower-middleclass Canarsie residents because those folks are "heirs to the socialist tradition of the Jewish needle trades." It will come as no surprise that the book's most frequently cited political thinker is the late Sen. Prince Rudy's Courtier: a mugged liberal's love affair with a tough mayor Is it reasonable to admit that the salad days of the business are behind us? Would you launch your newsletter today? Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb--the longest running music-and-lyric partnership in Broadway history--recall the salad days of their careers in an exclusive excerpt from their upcoming book Colored Light: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration and All That Jazz (Faber & Faber). Coming in November The Mantis will be launched by Tritin at an open house show entitled ' Salad Days' in Peterborough on 7-9 October. Mantis transverse slicer unveiled I'm just glad my friends and I, along with countless others, got to skate it in its salad days. The East has now lost another. Mail drop We were living through the salad days of music sampling, before a legal chill descended on this warm and lustrous craft. Princes among thieves: sampling the '80s If you believe that "the full monty" derives from the noted British military officer (it doesn't) or wonder when the word "humongous" entered the language (circa 1968) or care where the expression " salad days" originated (Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra), you'll surely enjoy Morris's carefully researched, informative, and charmingly written commentaries on the origins and usage of the English language. Morris, Evan. The word detective; solving the mysteries behind those pesky words and phrases The salad days of that decadent decade brought about a certain self-indulgence that included the whims of an out-of-town businessman, Nicholas (Tom McCamus), who engages his first call girl, Dominique (Mia Kirshner). CENTURY HOTEL For every aspect of the industry, he added, 2000 will be remembered as the salad days. Greenbaum nostalgic for the heady days of six months ago Heavily sampled is Living Blues, including "The Blues Harp (Parts One and Two)," a segment from its 1977 "Interview: Eddie Boyd," the original insights of "The Social Context of Black Swan Records," and selections from the magazine's still informative series of articles concerning African musical influences on the blues from the early seventies, gleaned from the magazine's salad days. Write Me A Few Of Your Lines: A Blues Reader |