No Spring Chicken

What it means

Past your youth, said of someone who is still going but no longer pretending otherwise.

Where it comes from

The usual account is that birds hatched in spring fetched the best price at market, and buyers objected when an older one was passed off as one. The insult started as a question of price.

The puzzle it came from

No Spring Chicken was the answer to the Phrasicle of September 18, 2026. The clue read no ____ ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.

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