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OT: You're no Spring Chicken

Village Idiot
Village Idiot Posts: 6,959
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
This is for Leroy. :)

I was reading an interesting website about the origin of phrases. Very interesting. Many of our common phrases come from medieval times.

Anyway, this one caught my eye.

YOU'RE NO SPRING CHICKEN
Meaning: You're not young anymore; you're past your prime.

Origin: Until recent generations, there were no incubators and few warm hen houses. That meant chicks couldn't be raised during winter. New England growers found that those born in the spring brought premium prices in the summer market places. When these Yankee traders tried to pass off old birds as part of the spring crop, smart buyers would protest that the bird was "no spring chicken."
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Dripping Springs, Texas.
Just west of Austintatious


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