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Literature | Salad Days Days of inexperience, when persons are very green. "My salad days. When I was green in judgment." Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, i. 5. A pen'orth of salad oil. A strapping; a castigation. It is a joke on All Fools' Day to send one to the saddler's for a "penorth of salad oil." The pun is between "salad oil," as above, and the French avoir de la salade, "to be flogged." The French salader and salade are derived from the salle or saddle on which schoolboys were at one time birched. A block for the purpose used to be kept in some of our public schools. Oudin translates the phrase "Donner la salle à un escolier" by "Scopar un scolari innanzi à tutti gli altri." (Recherches Italiennes et Francoises, part ii. 508.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Movie/TV Titles | His Salad Days (1918) | |
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William Shakespeare | My salad days, when I was green in judgment. |
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Antony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare | My salad days, when I was green in judgement, cold in blood. |
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Expression using "SALAD DAYS": my salad days. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "SALAD DAYS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سنين الشباب, عمر الشباب (heyday). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | младежки години, зелени години. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | années de jeunesse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unschuldige jugendstage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χρόνια απειρίασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | én is sok bolondságot csináltam szilvafa koromban (I have had my fling in my salad days). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | anni verdi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aladsay aysday días de juventud. (various references) min gröna ungdom (my salad days). (various references) gençlik ve tecrübesizlik günleri, acemilik zamanı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-d-l-s-s-y" | |
-3 letters: salads. | |
-4 letters: assay, asyla, dadas, dyads, lyssa, sadly, salad, salsa, slays. | |
-5 letters: aals, adds, alas, dada, dads, dals, days, dyad, lads, lady, lass, lays, sals, says, slay, yald. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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