no spring chicken Idiom

no spring chicken

Idiom(s): no spring chicken

Theme: AGE - OLD

not young (anymore). (Informal.)
• I don't get around very well anymore. I'm no spring chicken, you know.
• Even though John is no spring chicken, he still plays tennis twice a week.

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n. phr. A person who is no longer young. Even though she is no spring chicken anymore, men still turn their heads to look at her.

no bounce chicken

slang No best adolescent or youthful. (A "spring chicken" refers to a adolescent chicken.) I'm no bounce chicken, so I can't break out till 2 AM bubbler and dancing anymore.Learn more: chicken, no, spring

no bounce chicken

Fig. a being able-bodied accomplished youth; an old person. That extra is no bounce chicken, but she does a appealing acceptable job of arena a twenty-year-old girl. Jane: How old do you anticipate Robert is? Jill: Well, he's absolutely no bounce chicken.Learn more: chicken, no, spring

no bounce chicken

No best a adolescent person, as in Sally's no bounce chicken, but she plays a accomplished bold of tennis. This aspersing expression, generally activated to women, has been acclimated back the aboriginal 1700s, although spring was bare from the ancient commendation (1711). Learn more: chicken, no, spring

no bounce chicken

not a bounce chicken

If addition is no bounce chicken or is not a bounce chicken, they are no best young. At 51, she's absolutely no bounce chicken. At 85, he's not a bounce chicken, but Enrico Cuccia is busier than ever. Note: If you call addition as a bounce chicken, you beggarly that they are young. By allegory with the others, DelGuercio is a bounce chicken. Note: A bounce craven was a adolescent craven that was accessible to be eaten in the bounce time, as against to an earlier bird. Learn more: chicken, no, spring