| 单词 | between grass and hay |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbetween grass and hay P5. between grass and hay: (with reference to the feeding of livestock) designating a time in which neither grass nor hay is abundant; (figurative, chiefly U.S.) between two stages of development or times of life; between two states or conditions. ΚΠ 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July xiii. 78 April and September are reckoned the worst Months to make Butter in, because then the Season is between Grass and Hay. 1871 S. de Vere Americanisms (1872) 208 The peculiar phrase in which the youth, who is no longer a boy, and not yet a man, is picturesquely said to be between grass and hay. 1891 H. C. Bunner Zadoc Pine 17 He..got a couple of eggs cooked for his private supper... The eggs were, as he told Mr. Bryan, ‘kinder 'twixt grass and hay’. 1919 Michigan Farmer 26 Apr. 31 This spring the season between grass and hay is the most serious I have ever seen. 2014 R. Lautner Road to Reckoning xi. 89 You will have twenty years to learn this between grass and hay. It will do no good to you now. < as lemmas |
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