Meaning & use
spring chicken
A young, inexperienced person, almost always used negatively to say someone is no longer young.
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He joked that he was no spring chicken anymore after struggling up the hill.
At sixty-five, she admits she is not exactly a spring chicken, but she still runs marathons.
A note on using this word
Spring chicken appears almost exclusively in the negative phrase no spring chicken, meaning someone is getting older.
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