单词 | no spring chicken |
释义 | no spring chickenSEE SYNONYMS FOR no spring chicken ON THESAURUS.COM No longer a young person, as in Sally's no spring chicken, but she plays a fine game of tennis. This unflattering expression, often applied to women, has been used since the early 1700s, although spring was omitted from the earliest citation (1711). Words nearby no spring chickennosophilia, nosophobia, nosopoietic, Nosopsyllus, nosotaxy, no spring chicken, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostalgist, nostalgy, no-stick The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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