make hay
Example Sentences
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Chief executive Noel Mooney has overseen a move to eat into the FAW's reserves in a bid to make hay while the sun is shining.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
That matters because successful investors make hay while the sun shines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The invaluable resource was being funneled into a single industry—the equivalent of mowing down entire grassland ecosystems to make hay for livestock, risking the starvation of deer and buffalo in the process.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2024
She aims to make hay of these loans that might merely have been also-rans at richer, bigger institutions in big cities.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2022
But thankfully she didn’t make hay about it.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
