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salad days
CIDE DICTIONARY
salad days, n. pl.
a period when a person is young and inexperienced. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
salad days
bloom, budtime, early years, florescence, flowering time, jeunesse, juvenescence, juvenility, my burning youth, my green age, prime of life, seedtime of life, springtime of life, tender age, tenderness, young blood, youngness, youth, youthfulness, youthhead, youthhood, youthinessFor further exploring for "salad days" in Webster Dictionary Online