What does it mean when something is in its salad days?

Question

and also what does it mean when someone is in their specimen days ie walt whitman.

Answer 1

Salad days: days of youthful inexperience

First used by Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra: "my salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood".

Specimen: A brief and incomplete account of something in writing; a rough draught or outline serving to show the chief features. (given as obsolete).

Answer 2

I think "salad days " means when you were starting out and thus poor and couldn't afford meat, only salad. I never heard of "specimen days", sounds kinda medical.

Answer 3

"Salad days" is an idiomatic expression, referring to a youthful time, accompanied by the inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence, or indiscretion that one associates with a young person.

Never heard of "specimen days."

Answer 4

Salad days means your poor - can't afford meat or a the main course.

Never heard speciman days so not sure what that means - could mean after your dead and they are using you as specimans.

Answer 5

Here you go.....

salad days
–noun a period of youthful inexperience: a man who never lost the immature attitudes of his salad days.


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[Origin: 1600–10]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source salad days
pl.n. A time of youth, innocence, and inexperience: "my salad days,/When I was green in judgment, cold in blood" (Shakespeare).


[Coined by William Shakespeare.]

Answer 6

"Salad days" is an idiomatic expression, referring to a youthful time, accompanied by the inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence, or indiscretion that one associates with a young person

Answer 7

It means good time with lots of money.

Answer 8

use it or lose it - a toss up