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"'''Salad days'''" is an ]atic expression, referring to a youthful time, accompanied by the inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence, or indiscretion that one associates with a young person. More modern use, especially in the ], refers to a person's heyday when somebody was at the peak of their abilities—not necessarily in that person's youth. "'''Salad days'''" is a ] ] referring to a period of carefree innocence, ], and pleasure associated with youth. The modern use describes a heyday, when a person is/was at the peak of their abilities, while not necessarily a youth.


==History== ==History==
The phrase was coined in ]'s '']'' in 1606.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Jack | first1 = Albert | title = Red herrings and white elephants: the origins of the phrases we use everyday | publisher = HarperCollins | year = 2005 | pages = 44 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=NSMq-PhYVq4C&lpg=PA44&dq=%22Salad%20days%22%20phrase&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q=%22Salad%20days%22%20phrase&f=false | accessdate = 2011-04-28 | isbn = 978-0-06-084337-3 | quote = The phrase is a simple one with a simple origin provided, once again, by Shakespeare. In 1606 the Bard wrote the play ''Antony And Cleopatra, which includes the line: 'They were my salad days, when I was green in judgement.'}}</ref> In the speech at the end of Act One in which ] is regretting her youthful dalliances with ] she says:<ref>{{citation |title=Brush up your Shakespeare! |chapter=Salad Days |pages=126–127 |year=1990 |author=Michael Macrone |isbn=978-0-517-18935-1}}</ref> The phrase ] to William Shakespeare, who made the first known use of it in his 1606 play '']''.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Jack | first1 = Albert | title = Red herrings and white elephants: the origins of the phrases we use everyday | publisher = HarperCollins | year = 2005 | page = 44 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NSMq-PhYVq4C&q=%22Salad+days%22+phrase+Red+Herrings+and+White+Elephants%3A+The+Origins+of+the+Phrases+We+Use+Everyd%5D&pg=PA44 | access-date = April 28, 2011 | isbn = 978-0-06-084337-3 | quote = The phrase is a simple one with a simple origin provided, once again, by Shakespeare. In 1606 the Bard wrote the play ''Antony And Cleopatra'', which includes the line: 'They were my salad days, when I was green in judgement.'}}</ref> In the speech at the end of Act One in which ] is regretting her youthful dalliances with ] she says, "...My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood/To say as I said then!"<ref>{{citation |title=Brush up your Shakespeare! |chapter=Salad Days |pages= |year=1990 |author=Michael Macrone |publisher=Gramercy Books |isbn=978-0-517-18935-1 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/brushupyourshake00macr/page/126 }}</ref>


⚫ The phrase became popular only from the middle of the 19th century, coming to mean "a period of youthful inexperience or indiscretion." The ] comes from Cleopatra's use of the word 'green'—presumably meaning someone youthful, inexperienced, or immature. Her references to "green" and "cold" both suggest qualities of ]s.<ref>{{cite book |title=Shakespeare and the classical tradition: an annotated bibliography, 1961–1991 |last=Walker |first=John Louis |year=2002 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=0-8240-6697-9 |page=340 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q3Voi0Dk_HwC&q=%22salad+days%22+shakespeare&pg=PA340
<blockquote>...My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood...</blockquote>
⚫ |access-date=May 3, 2011}}</ref>


⚫ Fowler's '']'' summarizes several other possible meanings of the metaphor:
⚫ The phrase became popular only from the middle of the 19th century, coming to mean “a period of youthful inexperience or indiscretion." The metaphor comes from Cleopatra's use of the word 'green' &mdash; presumably meaning someone youthful, inexperienced, or immature. Her references to "green in judgment" and "cold in blood" both suggest qualities of salads.
<ref>{{cite book |title=Shakespeare and the classical tradition: an annotated bibliography, 1961-1991 |last=Walker |first=John Louis |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2002 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=0-8240-6697-9 |page=340 |pages= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=q3Voi0Dk_HwC&pg=PA340&dq=%22salad+days%22+shakespeare&hl=en&ei=FsXATc7zFIGtgQfGyMDoBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=%22salad%20days%22%20shakespeare&f=false
⚫ |accessdate=May 3, 2011}}</ref>

⚫ Fowler's ''Dictionary of Modern English Usage'' summarizes several other possible meanings of the metaphor:


<blockquote>Whether the point is that youth, like salad, is raw, or that salad is highly flavoured and youth loves high flavours, or that innocent herbs are youth's food as milk is babes' and meat is men's, few of those who use the phrase could perhaps tell us; if so, it is fitter for parrots' than for human speech.<ref>Fowler, H. W. ''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage''. Oxford University Press, 1926.</ref></blockquote> <blockquote>Whether the point is that youth, like salad, is raw, or that salad is highly flavoured and youth loves high flavours, or that innocent herbs are youth's food as milk is babes' and meat is men's, few of those who use the phrase could perhaps tell us; if so, it is fitter for parrots' than for human speech.<ref>Fowler, H. W. ''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage''. Oxford University Press, 1926.</ref></blockquote>
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==Usage== ==Usage==


] during her Silver Jubilee Loyal Address, referring to her vow to God and her people when she made her 21st birthday broadcast: "Although that vow was made in my ''salad days'', when I was green in judgement, I do not regret nor retract one word of it." ] used the phrase during her ] royal address in ], referring to her vow to God and her people when she made her 21st birthday broadcast: "Although that vow was made in my salad days, when I was green in judgment, I do not regret nor retract one word of it."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/08/archives/britain-marks-the-queens-silver-jubilee-crowds-cheer-in-a-busy-day.html|title=Britain Marks the Queen's Silver Jubilee|website=The New York Times Archive|date=June 8, 1977|page=73|access-date=September 8, 2022}}</ref>


The phrase has been used as the title of several books, including the novels ''Salad Days'' by ]<ref>Sagan, Francoise, ''Salad Days,'' Dutton Adult, 1984, ISBN 0-525-24238-4</ref> and by ],<ref>Romalotti, Charles, ''Salad Days'', Layman Press, 2000, ISBN</ref> the autobiography ''The Salad Days'' by ],<ref>Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., ''Salad Days,'' Doubleday, 1988, ISBN 978-0-385-17404-6</ref> and numerous cookbooks.<ref>Desaulnier, Marcel, ''Salad Days: Main Course Salads for a First Class Meal'', Simon & Schuster, 1998, ISBN 978-0-684-82261-7</ref><ref>Powell, Pam, ''Salad Days: Recipes for Delicious Organic Salads and Dressings for Every Season'', Voyageur Press, 2011, ISBN 0-7603-4043-9</ref> The phrase has been used as the title of several books, including novels by ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/20th-october-1928/52/salad-days-by-theodora-benson-cayme-press-7s-6dmis|title=Salad Days|website=The Spectator Archive|date=October 20, 1928|page=52|access-date=May 9, 2022}}</ref> ],<ref>Sagan, Françoise, ''Salad Days,'' Dutton Adult, 1984, {{ISBN|0-525-24238-4}}</ref> and ];<ref>Romalotti, Charles, ''Salad Days'', Layman Press, 2000, ISBN</ref> ]'s autobiography ''The Salad Days'';<ref>Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., ''Salad Days,'' Doubleday, 1988, {{ISBN|978-0-385-17404-6}}</ref> and numerous cookbooks.<ref>Desaulnier, Marcel, ''Salad Days: Main Course Salads for a First Class Meal'', Simon & Schuster, 1998, {{ISBN|978-0-684-82261-7}}</ref><ref>Powell, Pam, ''Salad Days: Recipes for Delicious Organic Salads and Dressings for Every Season'', Voyageur Press, 2011, {{ISBN|0-7603-4043-9}}</ref>


⚫ === In film, television, and modern theatre ===
], "Tuna's End," '']'' article: "Aboard one Zodiac, Frank Hewetson, a 20-year Greenpeace veteran who in his ''salad days'' as a protester scaled the first BP deepwater oil rigs off Scotland, tried to direct his pilot toward the net so that he could throw a daisy chain of sandbags over its floating edge and allow the bluefin to escape."<ref>{{cite news |author=Paul Greenberg |coauthors= |title=Tuna's End |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/magazine/27Tuna-t.html |quote= |work=] |date=June 21, 2010 |accessdate=2010-06-24 }}</ref>
'']'' is a British ] by ] and lyricist Dorothy Reynolds. It premiered in the UK at the ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bristololdvic.org.uk/archive/salad-days#:~:text=Salad%20Days%2C%20the%20hit%20musical,%2C%20it's%20since%20been%20overtaken).|title = Salad Days|date = August 27, 2021}}</ref> in June 1954, and transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in London on August 5, 1954. One of its songs, "The Time of My Life," includes the lyrics,<ref>{{citation |title=Salad Days – Book and lyrics |page=54 |year=1961 |author=Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade |publisher=Samuel French |isbn=978-0-573-08025-8}}</ref> ''"We're young and we're green as the leaf on the tree / For these are our salad days."''


A sketch from '']'' is called "]," and features a parody of Slade's musical as interpreted by ].
⚫ === In film, television, and theatre ===
In the 1987 ] film '']'', ] as H.I. “Hi” McDunnough uses the expression twice in the first few minutes of the film. Speaking as the background voiceover rather than as a character, he first says, “These were the happy days, the ''salad days'' as they say, and Ed felt that having a critter was the next logical step. It was all she thought about." A few moments later, again as the voiceover, he says, "Our love for each other was stronger than ever, but I preminisced no return of the ''salad days''."


The phrase was used by H.I. McDonough (played by ]) in the ] film ]. H.I. states that "These were happy days, the salad days as they say" when he and his wife Ed (played by ]) were newlyweds. Later in the film, upon discovering Ed could not bear children, H.I. states "But I preminisced no return of the salad days".
Episode 33 of the television series '']'' is called "Salad Days".


''Salad Days'' is the name of a documentary film released in 2014 about the evolving ] and ] scene in Washington DC during the 1980s and 1990s. The choice of name hints at the 1985 '']'' by the Washington DC band ].
Independence Day 1996) "Are the salad days over for President Whitmore?"


The 2010 Taiwanese drama '']'' is named after the expression.
'']'' is a ] with music by ] and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade.

=== In literature ===

In ]'s ] series, Marco says his dad Peter referred to the time before losing Eva (Marco's mom) as the "salad days", though Marco doesn't understand the reference.


=== In music === === In music ===


====Album and song titles====
⚫ ] has a song on their ] entitled "Salad Days (Are Here Again)".

⚫ *] has a song on their ] titled "Salad Days (Are Here Again)."

⚫ *In 1985, Washington, D.C., ] band ] released the song "]," reflecting on days of spirited youth in contrast to a time of adult disillusionment.

⚫ *]'s 1999 album, ], consists of acoustic recordings of solo work as well as songs from his King Crimson era.
*Punk rock collective ] have a song titled "Unlimited Breadsticks, Soup and Salad Days" on their 2007 album '']''.

⚫ *The ]/] band Misser has a song called "Goddamn Salad Days" from their 2013 ] ''Distancing''.<ref>{{YouTube|cWa-8G8A0V0}}</ref>

⚫ *Canadian musician ]'s second album, released in 2014, is titled '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2014/01/mac-demarco-announces-new-album-salad-days-stream-passing-out-pieces/|title=Mac DeMarco announces new album, Salad Days, stream "Passing Out Pieces"|date=January 21, 2014}}</ref>


⚫ *"Salad Days" is a song by the ] post-punk band ], including the lyric "Think of salad days, they were folly and fun, they were good, they were young."
⚫ The phrase is used in the ] song "]": "These are my ''salad days'', slowly being eaten away".


====In song lyrics====
⚫ The idiom is used again in the opening line of the track "]" by ]: "Where do all the lovers meet with one another, in an effort to uncover what has happened to their salad days?"


⚫ *The phrase is used in the ] song "]": "These are my salad days, slowly being eaten away."
⚫ In 1985, Washington, D.C., hardcore punk band ] released the song "]", reflecting on days of spirited youth in contrast to a time of adult disillusionment.


⚫ *The idiom is used again in the opening line of the track "]" by ]: "Where do all the lovers meet with one another, in an effort to uncover what has happened to their salad days?"
⚫ The phrase is also used in the track "Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)" from ]'s '']'' EP: "Oh, nostalgia I don't need you anymore. 'Cause the ''salad days'' are over and the meat is at my door."


⚫ *The phrase is also used in the track "Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)" from ]'s '']'' EP: "Oh, nostalgia I don't need you anymore / 'Cause the salad days are over and the meat is at my door."
]'s song "Electric Aunt Jemima" contains the phrase as well: "Holiday and salad days, and days of moldy mayonnaise".


] use the phrase in the song "Frank to Valentino," on the album ] *]'s song "Electric Aunt Jemima" contains the phrase as well: "Holiday and salad days, and days of moldy mayonnaise."


] uses the phrase on the last song of their 2006 release ]. *] use the phrase in the song "Frank to Valentino," on the album '']''.


]'s song "Friends & Family" on his album '']'' uses the phrase in reference to his early career: "Rhyming in Greenwich Village circa 1993. Yeah those were the salad days, my career's appetizer." *]'s song "Friends & Family" on his album '']'' uses the phrase in reference to his early career: "Rhyming in ] circa 1993 / Yeah those were the salad days, my career's appetizer." His song "Ms. Hill" on his album ''Right About Now'' uses the phrase, saying, "We used to kick it in the salad days, but she look at me like she don't know me when she see me nowadays."


*] uses the phrase in their song, "Zoo Blues" which is featured on their 1987 album '']''.
Talib Kweli's song "Ms. Hill" on his album ''Right About Now'' uses the phrase, saying, "We used to kick it in the salad days, but she look at me like she don't know me when she see me nowadays."


⚫ *The phrase is also used in the chorus of the track "Vince The Loveable Stoner" from ]'s ''Costello Music'' album: "And I haven't seen a pupil in his eyes for 16 days, the Catholic girls love him in a hundred million different ways, and he's been up for days, in a thick malaise, he's only listened to the salad days."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thefratellis.com//releases/songs/vince-the-loveable-stoner/ |title=The Fratellis – Releases |access-date=September 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513053144/http://www.thefratellis.com/releases/songs/vince-the-loveable-stoner/ |archive-date=May 13, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
⚫ "Salad Days" is a song by the influential Cardiff post-punk band ]. The entire lyrics are "Think of salad days, they were folly and fun, they were good, they were young".


⚫ *In ]'s song "Guilty Cocker Spaniels," ] sings: "Salad days add up to daily shit".
⚫ The phrase is also used in the chorus of the track "Vince The Loveable Stoner" from ]'s ''Costello Music'' album: "And I haven't seen a pupil in his eyes for 16 days, the catholic girls love him in a hundred million different ways, and he's been up for days, in a thick malaise, he's only listened to the ''salad days''."<ref>http://www.thefratellis.com//releases/songs/vince-the-loveable-stoner/</ref>


⚫ *The song "What Would Jimi Do?" on bassist ]'s album ''Resonator'' begins with the lyric "Lately, I've been thinking back, back into my salad days."
⚫ Adrian Belew's 1999 album, ], consists of acoustic recordings of solo work as well as song from his King Crimson era.


*] uses the phrase on the last song of their 2006 release '']''.
⚫ In ]'s song "Guilty Cocker Spaniels", ] sings this: "Salad days add up to daily shit".


*] refers to the phrase in ]'s 2010 documentary called ''Beyond the Lighted Stage''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1545103/|title=Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>
⚫ The song "What Would Jimi Do?", on bassist ]'s album ''Resonator'' begins with the lyric "Lately, I've been thinking back, back into my salad days"


*]'s song "¡Viva la Gloria!" uses the phrase: "You made your bed in salad days amongst the ruins."
⚫ The ]/] band Misser has a song called "Goddamn, Salad Days" from their 2013 ] ''Distancing''.<ref>{{YouTube|cWa-8G8A0V0}}</ref>


*The ] song "Edible Flowers" from 2004's '']'' album features the line "Taste the edible flowers scattered in the salad days."
A ] featuring four guys from ], ] and their takes on the world we live in.<ref>http://thesaladdays.podbean.com/</ref>
*]' song "City on the Hill" from their 2015 record '']'' includes the lyric: "All the stolen melodies they played in the hit parade / all the borrowed spirituals they fade in the salad days."


*]'s song "Waste" from their 2017 record '']'' includes the lyric: "You and I were stuck in the waste / Talking about our salad days / What a damn lie."
⚫ Canadian musician ]'s third album, released in 2014, is titled '']''. <ref>http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/01/mac-demarco-announces-new-album-salad-days-stream-passing-out-pieces/</ref>
*]'s single "]" from their 1998 album '']'' contains the lyric "Salad days go a-tickling by / Have a high time, burn money in the meantime."
*The phrase is used in The ] Band song Roll on the Day written by ], from the 1982 album ]. The song contains the lyric "You were easy meat in your salad days."<ref>{{Citation |title=Roll on the Day {{!}} The Maddy Prior Band Lyrics, Meaning & Videos |url=https://sonichits.com/video/The_Maddy_Prior_Band/Roll_on_the_Day?track=1 |access-date=2023-05-19 |language=en}}</ref>
*]'s song "Black River" uses the phrase: "I guess these salad days have taken their toll."


==References== ==References==
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English-language idiom For other uses, see Salad Days (disambiguation).

"Salad days" is a Shakespearean idiom referring to a period of carefree innocence, idealism, and pleasure associated with youth. The modern use describes a heyday, when a person is/was at the peak of their abilities, while not necessarily a youth.

History

The phrase is attributed to William Shakespeare, who made the first known use of it in his 1606 play Antony and Cleopatra. In the speech at the end of Act One in which Cleopatra is regretting her youthful dalliances with Julius Caesar she says, "...My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood/To say as I said then!"

The phrase became popular only from the middle of the 19th century, coming to mean "a period of youthful inexperience or indiscretion." The metaphor comes from Cleopatra's use of the word 'green'—presumably meaning someone youthful, inexperienced, or immature. Her references to "green" and "cold" both suggest qualities of salads.

Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage summarizes several other possible meanings of the metaphor:

Whether the point is that youth, like salad, is raw, or that salad is highly flavoured and youth loves high flavours, or that innocent herbs are youth's food as milk is babes' and meat is men's, few of those who use the phrase could perhaps tell us; if so, it is fitter for parrots' than for human speech.

Usage

Queen Elizabeth II used the phrase during her silver jubilee royal address in 1977, referring to her vow to God and her people when she made her 21st birthday broadcast: "Although that vow was made in my salad days, when I was green in judgment, I do not regret nor retract one word of it."

The phrase has been used as the title of several books, including novels by Theodora Benson, Françoise Sagan, and Charles Romalotti; Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s autobiography The Salad Days; and numerous cookbooks.

In film, television, and modern theatre

Salad Days is a British musical by Julian Slade and lyricist Dorothy Reynolds. It premiered in the UK at the Bristol Old Vic in June 1954, and transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in London on August 5, 1954. One of its songs, "The Time of My Life," includes the lyrics, "We're young and we're green as the leaf on the tree / For these are our salad days."

A sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus is called "Salad Days," and features a parody of Slade's musical as interpreted by Sam Peckinpah.

The phrase was used by H.I. McDonough (played by Nicolas Cage) in the Coen Brother's film Raising Arizona. H.I. states that "These were happy days, the salad days as they say" when he and his wife Ed (played by Holly Hunter) were newlyweds. Later in the film, upon discovering Ed could not bear children, H.I. states "But I preminisced no return of the salad days".

Salad Days is the name of a documentary film released in 2014 about the evolving punk and hardcore scene in Washington DC during the 1980s and 1990s. The choice of name hints at the 1985 Salad Days (EP) by the Washington DC band Minor Threat.

The 2010 Taiwanese drama Gloomy Salad Days is named after the expression.

In literature

In Katherine Applegate's Animorphs series, Marco says his dad Peter referred to the time before losing Eva (Marco's mom) as the "salad days", though Marco doesn't understand the reference.

In music

Album and song titles

  • In 1985, Washington, D.C., hardcore punk band Minor Threat released the song "Salad Days," reflecting on days of spirited youth in contrast to a time of adult disillusionment.
  • The pop-punk/emo band Misser has a song called "Goddamn Salad Days" from their 2013 EP Distancing.
  • "Salad Days" is a song by the Cardiff post-punk band Young Marble Giants, including the lyric "Think of salad days, they were folly and fun, they were good, they were young."

In song lyrics

  • The phrase is used in the Spandau Ballet song "Gold": "These are my salad days, slowly being eaten away."
  • The idiom is used again in the opening line of the track "Lovers Who Uncover" by The Little Ones: "Where do all the lovers meet with one another, in an effort to uncover what has happened to their salad days?"
  • The phrase is also used in the track "Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)" from Patrick Stump's Truant Wave EP: "Oh, nostalgia I don't need you anymore / 'Cause the salad days are over and the meat is at my door."
  • Frank Zappa's song "Electric Aunt Jemima" contains the phrase as well: "Holiday and salad days, and days of moldy mayonnaise."
  • Talib Kweli's song "Friends & Family" on his album Gutter Rainbows uses the phrase in reference to his early career: "Rhyming in Greenwich Village circa 1993 / Yeah those were the salad days, my career's appetizer." His song "Ms. Hill" on his album Right About Now uses the phrase, saying, "We used to kick it in the salad days, but she look at me like she don't know me when she see me nowadays."
  • The phrase is also used in the chorus of the track "Vince The Loveable Stoner" from The Fratellis's Costello Music album: "And I haven't seen a pupil in his eyes for 16 days, the Catholic girls love him in a hundred million different ways, and he's been up for days, in a thick malaise, he's only listened to the salad days."
  • The song "What Would Jimi Do?" on bassist Tony Levin's album Resonator begins with the lyric "Lately, I've been thinking back, back into my salad days."
  • Geddy Lee refers to the phrase in Rush's 2010 documentary called Beyond the Lighted Stage.
  • Green Day's song "¡Viva la Gloria!" uses the phrase: "You made your bed in salad days amongst the ruins."
  • The Finn Brothers song "Edible Flowers" from 2004's Everyone Is Here album features the line "Taste the edible flowers scattered in the salad days."
  • Desaparecidos' song "City on the Hill" from their 2015 record Payola includes the lyric: "All the stolen melodies they played in the hit parade / all the borrowed spirituals they fade in the salad days."
  • Brand New's song "Waste" from their 2017 record Science Fiction includes the lyric: "You and I were stuck in the waste / Talking about our salad days / What a damn lie."
  • Deep Purple's single "Any Fule Kno That" from their 1998 album Abandon contains the lyric "Salad days go a-tickling by / Have a high time, burn money in the meantime."
  • The phrase is used in The Maddy Prior Band song Roll on the Day written by Rick Kemp, from the 1982 album Hooked on Winning. The song contains the lyric "You were easy meat in your salad days."
  • The Sheila Divine's song "Black River" uses the phrase: "I guess these salad days have taken their toll."

References

  1. Jack, Albert (2005). Red herrings and white elephants: the origins of the phrases we use everyday. HarperCollins. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-06-084337-3. Retrieved April 28, 2011. The phrase is a simple one with a simple origin provided, once again, by Shakespeare. In 1606 the Bard wrote the play Antony And Cleopatra, which includes the line: 'They were my salad days, when I was green in judgement.'
  2. Michael Macrone (1990), "Salad Days", Brush up your Shakespeare!, Gramercy Books, pp. 126–127, ISBN 978-0-517-18935-1
  3. Walker, John Louis (2002). Shakespeare and the classical tradition: an annotated bibliography, 1961–1991. New York: Routledge. p. 340. ISBN 0-8240-6697-9. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
  4. Fowler, H. W. A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Oxford University Press, 1926.
  5. "Britain Marks the Queen's Silver Jubilee". The New York Times Archive. June 8, 1977. p. 73. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  6. "Salad Days". The Spectator Archive. October 20, 1928. p. 52. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
  7. Sagan, Françoise, Salad Days, Dutton Adult, 1984, ISBN 0-525-24238-4
  8. Romalotti, Charles, Salad Days, Layman Press, 2000, ISBN
  9. Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., Salad Days, Doubleday, 1988, ISBN 978-0-385-17404-6
  10. Desaulnier, Marcel, Salad Days: Main Course Salads for a First Class Meal, Simon & Schuster, 1998, ISBN 978-0-684-82261-7
  11. Powell, Pam, Salad Days: Recipes for Delicious Organic Salads and Dressings for Every Season, Voyageur Press, 2011, ISBN 0-7603-4043-9
  12. "Salad Days". August 27, 2021.
  13. Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade (1961), Salad Days – Book and lyrics, Samuel French, p. 54, ISBN 978-0-573-08025-8
  14. Video on YouTube
  15. "Mac DeMarco announces new album, Salad Days, stream "Passing Out Pieces"". January 21, 2014.
  16. "The Fratellis – Releases". Archived from the original on May 13, 2012. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
  17. "Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage" – via www.imdb.com.
  18. Roll on the Day | The Maddy Prior Band Lyrics, Meaning & Videos, retrieved May 19, 2023

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