spring chicken
nounEtymology From spring + chicken. First appears c. 1765 in The Public Advertiser.
2
Informal, In negative constructions A person who is still young.
- 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.2014, William Friedman, Hearts and Minds, page 64:
- Derived terms
- no spring chicken
- Related terms
- spring onion