make hay
Example Sentences
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That matters because successful investors make hay while the sun shines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Or do they make hay while the sun is shining, and keep the firewood piled high, then brace for impact and wait for the long winter to pass?
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024
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
