A: Do you like the movie I recommended?

B: Yes, I do. It brought back some treasured memories. Back in my salad days my friends and I used to go dancing every Saturday night.

Note: This idiom, used by Shakespeare in “Antony and Cleopatra,” refers to the days of carefree innocence, inexperience and youth. The green of salad leaves, which are invariably short-lived, is an obvious allusion to youthfulness. The term can also refer to the time of material affluence in our more mature years, when the pressures of life have begun to ease — something akin to “the golden years.”