make hay
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Pronunciation
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Verb
make hay (third-person singular simple present makes hay, present participle making hay, simple past and past participle made hay)
- (literally) To cut grass to turn into hay for animal feed.
- (idiomatic) To take advantage of an opportunity.
- 2021 January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Little-used stations”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 46:
- I suggested that this was a mistake, particularly at a time of national crisis on the railways, because it opened the way for critics of the railway to make hay - which Institute of Economic Affairs Director Richard Wellings duly did in an anti-rail article in the Daily Telegraph.
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Translations
to cut grass to turn into hay
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