| 单词 | to be no chicken |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be no chicken 7. A young or inexperienced person. Now chiefly in to be no chicken and variants: to be no longer young. Cf. to be no spring chicken at spring chicken n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > young and inexperienced person colta1225 chicken1691 hopeful1720 pup1887 the world > people > person > adult > be adult [verb (intransitive)] to be no chicken1727 to be no spring chicken1857 1691 J. Wilson Belphegor ii. iii. 20 Thou'rt a meer Chicken, Girl. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 216. ⁋2 You ought to consider you are now past a Chicken; this Humour, which was well enough in a Girl, is insufferable in one of your Motherly Character. 1727 J. Swift Stella's Birth-day: 1720 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. iii. 152 Pursue your Trade of Scandal-picking, Your Hints, that Stella is no Chicken. 1809 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 25 Mar. 421 An infant at law? A mere chicken? 1954 Daily Mail 28 Apr. 4/4 He is 66 years old, no chicken, and not particularly robust. 2019 @VPerratore 20 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Shouldn't she consider her age and present state of health? She's no chicken! < as lemmas |
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