(you ain't no) Spring Chicken


I don't see this in the list. Is this forum the appropriate way to suggest a phrase be researched and added in?

Researched yes; added maybe.

This appears to originate in 1711 when published in the Spectator. "You ought to consider you are now past a chicken; this Humour, which was well enough in a Girl, is insufferable in one of your Motherly Character".

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