A spring chicken is one born in the spring. If you think about it, you can see how "spring chicken" would mean a young chicken. Chickens do not have long lives, escpecially when they are destined to be eaten for Sunday dinner. The flock of little yellow, fluffy chicks running around are spring chickens. Old people started using that as a humorous way to joke about how old they were. "I'm no spring chicken," someone will say, "but I can still get out on the dance floor."
A spring chicken is the farmer's term for one born in the latest spring. This idiom is saying you're not very young.
The idiom "no spring chicken" originated in the early 18th century and refers to someone who is no longer young or youthful. It alludes to chickens being considered most desirable as food when they are young and tender in the spring.
A spring chicken is the farmer's term for one born in the latest spring. This idiom is saying you're not very young.
No. There is an idiom Spring into action, meaning to get active immediately, and there is an idiom Spring out, meaning to appear suddenly. Use one or the other.
There isn't an idiom here. Spring is a season, and the song is telling how the season is flowing through the air and people can feel it.
Chicken is not an idiom, because an idiom is a phrase. Chicken, meaning afraid or cowardly, is a slang term. Slang is when you have a word (sometimes a couple of words) that local people use in a different way from the accepted meaning. Americans call someone 'chicken' not because they are domesticated birds that lay eggs and taste good fried, but because they act afraid.
The correct phrase is "wave of the future." This idiom suggests that something is expected to become increasingly popular or prevalent in the future.
This is not an idiom. It means exactly what it says. The gladness he felt in the Spring left his heart. He was feeling sad.
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It's not an idiom. "Cool" is a slang term meaning someone is popular or fashionable.
It's not an idiom. "Cool" is a slang term meaning someone is popular or fashionable.
That chicken really is finger-licking good!