spring chicken
Example Sentences
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As impersonated by Matt Walker, the company’s director and comic frontman, he makes the late-career Las Vegas singer look like a spring chicken.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
“I mean, I’m 40 years old. I know I’m not a spring chicken anymore.”
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024
It is worth noting that Trọng himself is no spring chicken, at 79 years old.
From Slate • Sep. 11, 2023
Its name doesn't just indicate its seasonality; like a spring chicken, spring onions are literally young onions, plucked earlier, which means that they aren't so bitter and, well, onion-y tasting.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2022
“What did you think I was, a spring chicken? Haw, haw—that’s a good one, eh, Sister?”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
