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Salad Days (Rebroadcast) - 3 October 2022

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

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My Salad Days

The first recorded instance that we have of this term salad days is in his play, Anthony and Cleopatra. She says, my salad days when I was green in judgment, cold in blood. So she's talking about her younger days. In fact, over time, people have come to use the term salad days to talk about a wonderful period in their life - even if they're older.

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