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Phrase(s): in one’s salad days
Fig. in one’s youth. (Usually formal or literary. Comparing the greenness of a salad with the greenness, or freshness and inexperience, of youth.) • I recall the joys I experienced on school vacations in my salad days. • In our salad days, we were apt to get into all sorts of mischief on the weekends.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs