Meaning of no spring chicken | Babel Free

Definitions

Said of a person who is no longer particularly young.

informal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“They expect me to carry this box myself while climbing the stairs to the seventh floor? I don't know about that — I'm no spring chicken.”

“You know the world. You are no spring chicken.”

“A real candidate arose to challenge dapper Robert Rice ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, aging coxcomb of the Senate. The candidate, no spring chicken himself: tall, lean Clyde Roark Hoey (pronounced Hooey), 65, one of the most popular Governors the state ever had.”

“He doubtless hoped for a sympathetic ruling from President Reagan, at 70 no spring chicken himself.”

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