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Make hay while the sun shines
- Take advantage of favorable circumstances; they may not last.
Idioms and Phrases
Take advantage of favorable circumstances, as in Car sales have finally improved so we're making hay while the sun shines . This expression alludes to optimum dry weather for cutting grass. [Early 1500s]Example Sentences
Yet companies in this ballooning market might be advised to make hay while the sun shines.
No one knows how long the run will continue, so there’s a sense that “we should make hay while the sun shines,†Ekus said.
Trouble hasn’t been repealed and there will be recessions and bear markets again in the future but, with no certainty of when that will happen, it’s important to make hay while the sun shines on the market.
“Make hay while the sun shines y’all!†she captioned the post.
“Make hay while the sun shines y’all!†the singer captioned her post.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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