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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 |
LÁRa | | LOW-rah | Icelandic |
Chetan | | - | Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada |
Aishah | | - | Arabic, Malay |
Jovan | | - | Serbian, Macedonian |
Biggs | | [bigz] | |
Priscus | | - | Ancient Roman |