that ain't hay

1. That's a great deal, especially of money; also, that's important. For example, He's making ten thousand a month, and that ain't hay. Originally used to describe a sum of money that is large, this phrase was later extended to other circumstances, as in She married a titled lord, and that ain't hay. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

Readers are reduced to stunned silence or rudely irrelevant expostulations like "And that ain't hay, baby!"

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The issue could not be put more baldly than it is in the Democrats' 1952 campaign song: The farmer's farmin' every day, Makin' money and that ain't hay!

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