| 单词 | to be no spring chicken |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be no spring chicken 2. colloquial (originally U.S.). A young person. Frequently in to be no spring chicken and variants: to be no longer young. Cf. chicken n. 7. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] youngeOE younglingOE girlc1300 youtha1325 young onec1384 birdc1405 young person1438 young blood1557 primrosea1568 slip1582 juvenal1598 quat1607 airling1611 egga1616 saplinga1616 chita1657 a slip of a girla1660 juvenile1733 young adult1762 boots1806 snip1838 spring chicken1857 yob1859 kid1884 chiseller1922 juvenile adult1926 YA1974 yoof1986 the world > people > person > adult > be adult [verb (intransitive)] to be no chicken1727 to be no spring chicken1857 1857 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 25 Feb. Mr. S. K., an habitue of the Fifth Avenue, has feathered his nest by espousing a spring chicken only fourteen years old who has $200,000 in her own right. 1874 G. W. Bagby What I did with My Fifty Millions xiv. 120 We were none of your tender-gizzarded spring chickens. 1910 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 6 Aug. 3/1 She wasn't a Spring chicken, by any means, yet she wasn't old. 1964 ‘E. McBain’ Ax vii. 125 I'm not a spring chicken any more... I'm fifty-two years old. 2007 G. Logsdon Mother of All Arts xv. 274 I was old enough to have fathered Ted Nugent, who was no spring chicken himself. < as lemmas |
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