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Antony and Cleo.

Posted by LawyerChk on June 07, 2000

In Reply to: Antony and Cleo. posted by Bruce Kahl on June 04, 2000

: Antony and Cleopatra by W. Shakespeare

: CLEOPATRA
: "My salad days,
: When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
: To say as I said then!"

: A person's "salad days" are the days of youth, when he or she is "green" (without experience), but fresh and hopeful.
: But the important connotation of the phrase (as per Evan,the Word Detective of the Morris Clan) is the sense of crisp, fresh youth, tossed with abandon and topped with the tangy vinaigrette of boundless optimism.

I thought the "salad days" of a marriage were the early, lean times. Because of tight budgets, during the early days of marriage, no meat -- ergo, "salad days." Anyone else heard this??

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