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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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