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Phrase(s): no spring chicken
Fig. a person well past youth; an old person. • That actress is no spring chicken, but she does a pretty good job of playing a twenty-year-old girl. • Jane: How old do you think Robert is? Jill: Well, he’s certainly no spring chicken.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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No longer a young person, as in Sally's no spring chicken, but she plays a fine game of tennis. This unflattering expression, often applied to women, has been used since the early 1700s, although spring was omitted from the earliest citation (1711).
American Heritage Idioms