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no spring chicken
no spring chicken
Fig. a person well past youth; an old person. That actress is no spring chicken, but she does a pretty good job of playing a twenty-year-old girl. Jane: How old do you think Robert is? Jill: Well, he's certainly no spring chicken.
no spring chicken
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).
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
HamİT | | - | Turkish |
Hrodpreht | | - | Ancient Germanic |
Isis | | IE-sis (English) | Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized) |
Abijah | | ə-BIE-jə (English) | Biblical |
Ellison | | ['elisən] | |
Sigfrido | | seeg-FREE-do (Italian), seeg-FREE-dho (Spanish) | Italian, Spanish |