salad years



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salad years

A carefree time of youthful innocence, ingenuousness, and inexperience. A variant of the more common "salad days," which itself is taken from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. I had a few encounters with truly romantic love back in my salad years, before I graduated; now, however, I think love is largely an elaborate delusion. Whenever I ask my grandfather the meaning of a word I hear on TV, he always laughs and says he'll tell me when I'm no longer in my salad years.
See also: salad, year

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Jehohanan-Biblical
HajnaHAWY-nawHungarian
SeijaSAY-yahFinnish
Marisamah-REE-zah (Italian), mah-REE-sah (Spanish), mə-RIS-ə (English)Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Xiomara-Spanish
Mikhailmee-khah-EEL (Russian)Russian, Bulgarian