VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Make Hay (While the Sun Shines)

Meaning:

To take advantage of an opportunity at the right time.

Examples:

  • He pushed up from the floor and brushed hay from his clothes.
  • He became a millionaire because he knew how to make hay while the sun shines.
  • When the tines get full of hay, you lift it.
  • London merely provides the venue for foreign-owned investment banks to make hay.
  • He watched her lift a bale of hay and step up on the pile.
  • The farmers hurried to make hay before the rain came.
  • The tourists won’t be here forever, so we’d better make hay while the sun shines.
  • They make hay to feed the cattle in winter.
  • A lot of artists do that: they make hay while the sun shines.
  • She advised him to make hay.
  • It's tempting to make hay while the sun shines.
  • You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men.
  • Make hay: new hotels don't offer discounts for ever.
  • It's not enough to enjoy yourself, you must make hay while the sun shines.
  • Until then, though, make hay while the sun shines.
  • He shall make hay with the others in that meadow and the lord shall give them 12d.
  • He can, presumably, make hay all summer?
  • Make hay while sun shines.
  • So why not make hay while the sun shines and plan a few picnics?
  • He assisted the farmers occasionally to make hay.
  • Finally, not all developers can make hay while the economic sun shines.
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  • Unions will understandably make hay with these facts.
  • You must make hay while the sun still shines.
  • You've got only a week, Soyou have to make hay while the sun shines.