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.
- In the meantime,[sentencedict.com/make hay.html] the banks will make hay.
- 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.