| 单词 | to make hay while the sun shines |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make hay while the sun shines 3. Phrases and Proverbs. to carry hay in one's horns: to be ill-tempered or dangerous (Latin fænum habet in cornu, Horace; from an ox apt to gore, whose horns were bound about with hay). to look for a needle in a bottle (bundle) of hay: see needle n. to make hay: (a) literal to mow grass and dry it by spreading it about and exposing it to the sun's heat; (b) figurative to make confusion. to make hay of: to throw into confusion, turn topsy-turvy, upset. to make hay while the sun shines: to lose no time, to seize or profit by opportunities. that ain't hay (U.S. colloquial): that is a lot of money; similarly in other negative contexts. to roll in the hay (colloquial): to make love; hence a roll in the hay, love-making; also concrete, a person making, or willing to make, love. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > have the opportunity [verb (intransitive)] > take the opportunity to make hay while the sun shines1546 to take occasion by the foretopa1577 to stir one's timea1578 to fill one's boots1969 society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [phrase] > large that ain't hay1943 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > an act of swivec1560 fall1594 sleep1612 fuck1663 merry bout1780 stroke1785 screw?c1845 charver1846 fuckeea1866 sex act1888 frigc1890 grind1893 mount1896 poke1902 tumble1903 screwing1904 ride1905 roll1910 trick1926 lay1932 jump1934 bang1937 knock1937 shag1937 a roll in the hay1945 boff1956 naughty1959 root1961 shtup1964 home run1967 seeing to1970 legover1975 bonk1978 zatch1980 boink1989 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse playOE to do (also work) one's kindc1225 bedc1315 couple1362 gendera1382 to go togetherc1390 to come togethera1398 meddlea1398 felterc1400 companya1425 swivec1440 japea1450 mellc1450 to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474 engender1483 fuck?a1513 conversec1540 jostlec1540 confederate1557 coeate1576 jumble1582 mate1589 do1594 conjoin1597 grind1598 consortc1600 pair1603 to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608 commix1610 cock1611 nibble1611 wap1611 bolstera1616 incorporate1622 truck1622 subagitate1623 occupya1626 minglec1630 copulate1632 fere1632 rut1637 joust1639 fanfreluche1653 carnalize1703 screw1725 pump1730 correspond1756 shag1770 hump1785 conjugate1790 diddle1879 to get some1889 fuckeec1890 jig-a-jig1896 perform1902 rabbit1919 jazz1920 sex1921 root1922 yentz1923 to make love1927 rock1931 mollock1932 to make (beautiful) music (together)1936 sleep1936 bang1937 lumber1938 to hop into bed (with)1951 to make out1951 ball1955 score1960 trick1965 to have it away1966 to roll in the hay1966 to get down1967 poontang1968 pork1968 shtup1969 shack1976 bonk1984 boink1985 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iii. sig. Aiv Whan the sonne shynth make hey. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. N8 He's sharpe as thorn; And fretfull, carries Hay in's horne. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 138 She..was resolv'd..to make Hay whilest the Sun shin'd. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey to Jerusalem (1721) 144 No Hay being here made. 1817 M. Edgeworth Rose, Thistle, & Shamrock i. ii, in Comic Dramas 281 Oh! father, how you are making hay of my things! 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 June 3/2 Sussex made hay of the Gloucestershire bowling. 1891 J. M. Dixon Dict. Idiomatic Eng. Phrases (at cited word) Between hay and grass, in an unformed state; hobble-de-hoy. F[amiliar]. An Americanism, said of youths between boyhood and manhood. 1943 R. Chandler Lady in Lake (1944) vii. 44 Job pays eighty a month, cabin, firewood... That ain't hay. 1945 ‘L. Lewis’ Birthday Murder (1951) iii. 39 He gets something out of it... Maybe just a good roll in the hay. 1948 C. Porter Always True to you in my Fashion (song) p. 4 Mis-ter Thorne once cor-nered corn—and that ain't hay. 1949 M. Miller Sure Thing (1950) 79 I thought here's a kind of pretty girl..and I bet she'd be a good roll in the hay. 1952 P. H. Bonner SPQR (1953) xxvi. 233 I had fancied her as a desirable bit for a roll in the hay. 1958 R. Stout Champagne for One (1959) iv. 42 Fresh figs in March, by air from Chile, are not hay. 1959 G. Fisher Hospitality for Murder xvii. 137 Just over a million bucks per day, to be exact—and that ain't hay. 1963 M. McCarthy Group xiv. 332 We had a few rolls in the hay... Then for him it was over. 1966 J. Porter Sour Cream xiii. 166 There she was, rolling around in the hay with enough evidence for a dozen divorces. 1968 Times 9 Nov. 23/3 Peterson's marriage is collapsing... He..rolls in the hay with..a plump little thing. 1969 ‘H. Pentecost’ Girl Watcher's Funeral (1970) ii. i. 73 I will come into a cool two and a half million dollars... I will also collect executor's fees which won't be hay. 1973 Times 9 Mar. 18/2 A quiet girl librarian, on vodka, has fantasy dreams of rolling in the hay in frilly drawers. < as lemmas |
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