Re: No spring chicken!
   In Reply to: Re: No spring chicken! posted by Shae on March 29, 2004
   : : : SPRING CHICKEN - "We find the expression 'now past a chicken,'
   Motherly Character.' 'No spring chicken,' an exaggeration of the
   as spring chicken to convince customers that the bird was slaughtered
   "I'm no spring chicken," meaning they were past young adulthood, when
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   From the archives under "spring chicken""
   spring chicken 1 A young inexperienced person. Alkways used in "no
   spring chicken." 1907 [1894]: "I was no spring chicken in the way of
   in "[she's] no spring chicken." The most common use.
   Spring chicken. A young person. The phrase is usually found in the
   negative, as 'She's no spring chicken.' The implication is that she has
   reached an age when she is no longer a chick. A spring chicken is a
   young fowl ready for eating, which was originally in the spring. The
   She wasn't a Spring chicken, by any means, yet she wasn't old. (_Daily