spring chicken

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Noun

spring chicken (plural spring chickens)

1. A chicken for eating while it is still young.
2. (mostly, in negative constructions) A person who is still young.
   • 2014, William Friedman, Hearts and Minds (page 64)

     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.

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