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. “Hi” McDunnough uses the expression twice in the first few minutes of the film. In the 1987 Joel and Ethan Coen film Raising Arizona, Nicolas Cage as H.I. In the 1977 Rudy Ray Moore film Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son In Law, Lou Cipher claims that the deal he made with Adam and Eve was during his salad days, when he was young. Barney responds, " well these are my salad days" The 1964 Andy Griffith Show Season 5 episode 19 Andy ask Barney how he can burn the candle at both ends. 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. It premiered in the UK at the Bristol Old Vic in June 1954, and transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in London on 5 August 1954. Salad Days is a British musical with music by Julian Slade and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade. Paul Greenberg, "Tuna's End," New York Times Magazine 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." In film, television, and modern theatre The phrase has been used as the title of several books, including the novels Salad Days by Francoise Sagan and by Charles Romalotti, the autobiography The Salad Days by Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and numerous cookbooks. Queen Elizabeth II during her Silver Jubilee Royal 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 judgment, I do not regret nor retract one word of it." 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. įowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage summarizes several other possible meanings of the metaphor: Her references to "green" and "cold" both suggest qualities of salads. 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. My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood/To say as I said then!
In the speech at the end of Act One in which Cleopatra is regretting her youthful dalliances with Julius Caesar she says: The phrase was coined in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in 1606.
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