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A spring chicken is the farmer's term for one born in the latest spring. This idiom is saying you're not very young.

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What is an expression with the word chicken to mean not young person?

He/she was no spring chicken.


When did the idiom no spring chicken become popular?

A spring chicken is one born in the spring. If you think about it, you can see how "spring chicken" would mean a young chicken. Chickens do not have long lives, escpecially when they are destined to be eaten for Sunday dinner. The flock of little yellow, fluffy chicks running around are spring chickens. Old people started using that as a humorous way to joke about how old they were. "I'm no spring chicken," someone will say, "but I can still get out on the dance floor."


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What does you're no spring chicken?

A spring chicken is the farmer's term for one born in the latest spring. This idiom is saying you're not very young.


Where did the idiom no spring chicken originate?

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