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Meanings of make hay in English

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Usage of make hay in English
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GoTo again tried to make hay out of Thursday's news from AltaVista.
Wired
2
He set in to make hay while the sun was shining.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 2: 1866-1875
3
It's an exhibit the prosecution will try to make hay with at trial.
Flesh and bone: a body farm novel
4
Farmers make hay while the sun shines, but restaurateurs do it over Christmas.
The Irish Times
5
When the Lions are away, it's their time to make hay.
The Irish Times
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To make hay properly we thought we needed two successive days of sun.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
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I wonder how you could make hay from something like this.
From those wonderful folks who gave you pearl harbor: front-line...
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That's why I want to make hay while the sun shines.
The Day of the Beast
9
I probably won't have it again, so you'd better make hay this time.
Three Soldiers
10
One can't make hay and remain altogether as clean as a new pin!
Innocent : her fancy and his fact
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Let's make hay. All this talk goes only so far.
The Guardian
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Take the advice of an old campaigner, and make hay while the sun shines.
Miss Caprice
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He might as well make hay while the sun shone.
The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport
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We may as well make hay while the Trezac shines.
The Custom of the Country
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They assisted to plant, to make hay, to husk, and to garner the corn.
Woman on the American Frontier / A Valuable and Authentic Histor...
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I suppose he'll come up and help Lewis to make hay of Stock's chances.
The Half-Hearted
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