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Definition of Make hay
1. Verb. Turn to one's advantage. "The environmentalist lobby made hay of the nuclear plant accident"
Definition of Make hay
1. Verb. (literally) To cut grass to turn into hay for animal feed. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To take advantage of an opportunity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Make Hay
Literary usage of Make hay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1879)
"Let us be wise as serpents ; it is best to make hay when the sun shines; you see
how the bee lieth still all winter, and bestirs her only when she can have ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"It must bo struck while the iron is red- hot or it cannot be moulded into shape.
Similar proverbs are " make hay while the sun shines. ..."
3. Specimens of Prose Composition by Charles Read Nutter, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Chester Noyes Greenough (1907)
"HOW TO make hay To explain how a farmer make's hay we must necessarily begin with
the time when the grass is ready to be cut, and end when the cured hay is ..."
4. A Second Reader by Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks (1910)
"He mows the grass to make hay. The sun will dry the grass. The sun will make the
hay. Horses and cows like hay. Smell the grass. How sweet it is! ..."
5. Forest, Lake, and Prairie: Twenty Years of Frontier Life in Western Canada by John McDougall (1895)
"William goes to the plains—I begin work at Victoria— make hay—Plough—Hunt—Storm.
FATHER had suggested two plans for immediate action : One was to send ..."
6. Forest, Lake, and Prairie: Twenty Years of Frontier Life in Western Canada by John McDougall (1895)
"William goes to the plains—I begin work at Victoria— make hay—Plough—Hunt—Storm.
FATHER had suggested two plans for immediate action : One was to send ..."
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