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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).

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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.

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