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venäjäжелторотый юнец (želtorotyi junets)

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Substantiivi

  1. (informal, litotes) Said of a person who is no longer particularly young.

Esimerkit

  • He ran up three flights of stairs, and he's no spring chicken.
  • You know the world. You are no spring chicken.
  • A real candidate arose to challenge dapper Robert Rice ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, aging coxcomb of the Senate. The candidate, no spring chicken himself: tall, lean Clyde Roark Hoey (pronounced Hooey), 65, one of the most popular Governors the state ever had.
  • He doubtless hoped for a sympathetic ruling from President Reagan, at 70 no spring chicken himself.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkono spring chickens

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