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that ain't hay
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Idioms and Phrases
That's a great deal, especially of money; also, that's important. For example, He's making ten thousand a month, and that ain't hay . Originally used to describe a sum of money that is large, this phrase was later extended to other circumstances, as in She married a titled lord, and that ain't hay . [ Colloquial ; first half of 1900s]Discover More
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Readers are reduced to stunned silence or rudely irrelevant expostulations like "And that ain't hay, baby!"
The issue could not be put more baldly than it is in the Democrats' 1952 campaign song: The farmer's farmin' every day, Makin' money and that ain't hay!
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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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