spring chicken
a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
Slang. a young person: I don't know his age, but he's no spring chicken.
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How to use spring chicken in a sentence
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British Dictionary definitions for spring chicken
Also called: springer mainly US and Canadian a young chicken, tender for cooking, esp one from two to ten months old
she is no spring chicken informal she is no longer young
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Other Idioms and Phrases with spring chicken
see no spring chicken.
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