Noun
A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc.
A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad.
Source: Webster's dictionaryVulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. Cyril Connolly
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. Djuna Barnes
Our Garrick 's a salad for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree. Oliver Goldsmith
Drink upon salad costs the doctor a ducat; drink upon eggs costs him two. German Proverb
The person who plants the lettuce does not always eat the salad. Spanish Proverb
He who plants the lettuce doesn't always eat the salad. Spanish Proverb