spring chicken

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A chicken for eating while it is still young.
  2. A person who is still young. informal
    — It is a special day for you indeed, for both of us, bodies incorporeal, receptive always to life's joys appreciative in any way I can, you like to remind me were both getting old; I'd remind you that, at fifty-five, you're still a spring chicken.

词形变化

spring chickens plural

词源

From spring + chicken. First appears c. 1765 in The Public Advertiser.
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