salad year
The inexperienced, youthful prime of a person, group, organization, or entity.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“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.”
From salad days.
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a year and a day
A long time.
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banner year
An especially fruitful year; a year of exceptional production.
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be a hundred years too early
To be so immature and unprepared as to have no hope of achieving an accomplishment.
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donkey's years
A long time, years and years.
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four score and seven years ago
Used (sometimes sarcastically) to indicate that a past event being mentioned is particularly important: a long time ago; many years ago.
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golden years
Old age; especially, the leisure years in later life after one has retired from employment.
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never in a million years
Absolutely not.
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not in a million years
Alternative form of never in a million years.
Last updated August 10, 2026