This week’s theme
Contranyms

This week’s words
dabster
salad days
depthless
grog
sententious

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(SAL-uhd dayz)

MEANING:

noun:
1. A period of youthful innocence and inexperience.
2. A period of great success: heyday.

ETYMOLOGY:

The earliest documented use of the term is from Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” (1616). Cleopatra, now in love with Antony, explains her previous admiration for Julius Caesar with these words:
“My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then.”

USAGE:

“The elderly gentleman couldn’t help recollect the good old salad days.”
Marcus Mergulhao; Percussionist Bondo in a World of His Own; The Times of India (New Delhi); Jul 18, 2016.

“Warren Buffett is justifiably revered by investors around the world ... Nevertheless, from my perch, Buffett’s salad days seem to be over; the only question that remains is the timing and to what degree investors will abandon the Oracle of Omaha.”
Doug Kass; Doug Kass on the Market; Wiley; 2014.

See more usage examples of salad days in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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