[post_page_title]”No spring chicken”[/post_page_title]
The expression “no spring chicken” is often used to derogatively refer to someone who is past their prime and attempts to behave younger than they are. The allegorical phrase actually stems from a literal context.
In the early 1700s, it was known among farmers that spring-born chickens had greater value than the older ones that had endured winter. When the farmers would attempt to sell off the winter birds as spring-born, they were met with the complaint that they were no spring chickens.
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