| Idiom | No Spring Chicken |
|---|---|
| Example | Grandma can't run and play ball the way she used to. She's no spring chicken. |
| Meaning | not young anymore |
| Origin | This saying has been around since the early 1800s, and it almost always applied to women, although there's no reason it couldn't refer to men, too. A spring chicken is a really young chick, like a baby. The expression began as "now past a chicken," and the saying today is a variation of the original. |
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