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   salad days, noun:

   A time of youthful inexperience, innocence, or indiscretion.



     Those  were  his salad days, and he thought they might last

     forever.

     --David Gergen, " 'They Love You. Watch Out,' " [1]New York

     Times, February 2, 1997

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   Salad  days was coined by Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra:

   "My salad days,/ When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."