Idiom
salad year
Meaning
The inexperienced, youthful prime of a person, group, organization, or entity.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He was still in his salad years when he started the company.”
“The band's salad years were messy, but they learned a lot from those early mistakes.”
“Looking back on the salad years of the republic, historians see both naivety and the fierce energy that would later shape a nation.”
Examples
simple
“He was still in his salad years when he started the company.”
contextual
“The band's salad years were messy, but they learned a lot from those early mistakes.”
complex
“Looking back on the salad years of the republic, historians see both naivety and the fierce energy that would later shape a nation.”
Origin
From salad days.
Key words
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