Advertisement
Advertisement
View synonyms for no spring chicken
no spring chicken
Discover More
Idioms and Phrases
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).Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse