{"id":4152,"date":"2020-06-29T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/?post_type=mcq&#038;p=4152"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:07:10","slug":"in-his-salad-days-he-was-quite-a-dandy","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/in-his-salad-days-he-was-quite-a-dandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning of Salad Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the sentence, what does <strong>salad days<\/strong> mean?<br>In his <strong>salad days<\/strong>, he was quite a dandy.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>old age<\/li>\n<li>school days<\/li>\n<li>one&#8217;s youthful days<\/li>\n<li>childhood only<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3140],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[1894,1896,1895],"class_list":["post-4152","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-age-and-youth","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-grade-8","education_level-hsc","education_level-ssc"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>one&#x27;s youthful days<\/strong> is correct because <strong>salad days<\/strong> means one's youthful or inexperienced period of life.<\/p><p>This idiom or phrase is useful because it helps students understand the intended meaning beyond the individual words.<\/p><p><strong>Examples:<\/strong> <em>In her salad days, she dreamed of becoming a singer.<\/em> <em>He made many mistakes in his salad days, but he learned from them.<\/em><\/p><p>The idiom refers broadly to youth and inexperience, not old age or only school days.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"old age"},{"right":"no","answer":"school days"},{"right":"yes","answer":"one's youthful days"},{"right":"no","answer":"childhood only"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3140,"title":"Age and Youth","slug":"age-and-youth"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/4152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}