Multiple choice softskills communication

The phrase 'Salad Days' was coined by

  1. Noel Coward

  2. William Shakespeare

  3. Mrs Beeton

  4. Charles Dickens
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Explanation

Shakespeare coined the phrase 'salad days' in his play Antony and Cleopatra (1606), where Cleopatra speaks of 'my salad days, when I was green in judgment.' The metaphor compares youth to fresh green salad - new, unseasoned, and full of potential but lacking maturity. Mrs Beeton was a Victorian cookbook writer, Coward a 20th-century playwright, and Dickens a 19th-century novelist - none of whom originated this Elizabethan phrase.

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