What are the examples of the proverb make hay while the sun shines?

Answer 1

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The expression "make hay while the sun shines" basically means to take advantage of the right time to do a certain thing. Your essay must reflect this. Some examples might be:

• The best way to gather water from rain
• Buying and selling stocks of an actively fluctuating commodity
• Selling lemonade on a very hot day outside the supermarket

As everyone who lives near farmers knows, hay can only be cut and bound up into sheaves or bales when it is dry. If the hay is wet, it rots and can spontaneously combust. Therefore a dry sunny day is perfect for haying. The saying means that you should seize an opportunity when it presents itself, because if you wait, conditions may be less optimal. If you do not make hay when the sun shines, it may rain, and then you can't make hay at all.

Answer 2

There is an order in nature. Everything happens as if to preset program. The nights end, the day breaks and then again night follows. And when May comes, it brings the early showers and the world wears a new look, green and beautiful. And then, comes the summer, days become longer and the sun becomes hotter and we long for a cool shady spot to retire. And so the time moves. Autumn comes and goes as winter slowly creeps in. And the year ends when the biting winter comes to a close, to trace the cycle again. Can we have hot sunny days in the cold biting winter? Can we make hay when the sun does not shine?

We cannot alter this design of nature to suit our needs; we can only alter our needs and programs to correspond to this unchanging plan of nature.

Youth comes once in our lifetime, and the vigour and buoyancy; opportunities too may not come again and again. And when once they come we must seize them. If we lose the change, nothing but regrets remain; and o amount of regrets will help us. It is totally useless to weep over spilt milk. When youth passes into old age, it brings with it cares and anxieties that accompany it like a shadow, vigour wanes, and faculties decline. It is not possible to complete the tasks that were left unfinished.

Prudence tells us that we cannot afford to postpone things. There is time and place for everything. We can neither create nor recreate them. Procrastination is worse than Alcoholism. Both lead to failures and ruination. Virtue lies in acting at the right time, in the right direction. Action delayed is action denied.

Often complacence is the root of procrastination. We take things easy and postpone them; but when they become unwieldy, we perplex and perspire. Remedy therefore lies in avoiding complacence; take everything in the right earnestness. Over-confidence is as bad as diffidence; if the former makes us complacent, the latter leaves us incompetent; both block our way to success, cause despair and disappointment.

Laziness can also be the culprit. A little introspection will convince us to accept the unpalatable reality. When once we accept the fact, it only needs a constant effort to vanquish this internal foe. Finally, luck and fate. We believe that behind every success story, there is major part for luck to play. And when finally we fail, we blame the fate and wash our hands. So, if luck makes us insincere, fate makes us irresponsible.

A student who neglects his studies all through the year cannot get through even if he burns the midnight oil, just a day or two before the examinations. Nobody can win a marathon running race just because he has luck. Wisdom doesn't lie in looking at the sky and making weather forecasts, but in being ready to face all weathers - fair or foul.

Many a tragedy has taken place because of procrastination. It is therefore imminent to seize the opportunities when they are within the reach and make the best use of them. Opportunities will never come in series or again and again, though difficulties may. Famine and fever, death and old age, threaten us; when the bird is on the wing, we have only a little while to stay. There is no time to pause or ponder. No time for second thoughts. Tomorrow will be too late. The moving finger writes and having written moves on.

Answer 3

This means while you have time to do something useful, do it. Don't waste your time when you have the opportunity.

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Answer 4

The idiom "Make hay while the sun shines" refers to an agricultural activity, the yearly cutting of grasses or wheat to make hay. Hay must dry out before it is used. It cannot be wet, or it will require more time laying in the field before baling. When cutting hay, the sheared off grasses lay haphazardly in the field where the grasses fell upon cutting with a scythe. As the sun dries the top layer, men would walk the field with pitch forks and scoop the hay into a pile. When the pile was large enough to carry on one's back, they would roll the pile so the blades of grass kept together, then stack them or create a "haystack" around an upright post so horses could feed.

Later, machines did the work of cutting and baling, either into large round bales or smaller rectangular bales. The piles or bales would stay in the field for weeks or months to ensure the innermost area was completely dry. If not, when stacked together, wetness inside a hay bale can generate enough heat to spark fire and burn down the hayloft and barn where it was stacked. So "while the sun shines" is important to "make hay", which is an important commodity to farmers for livestock. Over time, the idiom became associated with good or positive outcomes, while the origin and reference to "make hay" became harder to understand.

Answer 5

Aside from making hay while the sun shines, you could also make maple syrup while the sap is flowing, make money while you are employed, or make dinner while you are hungry.