make hay
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cut grass to turn into hay for animal feed.
verb
To take advantage of an opportunity.
Example Sentences
- "I suggested that this was a mistake, particularly at a time of national crisis on the railways, because it opened the way for critics of the railway to make hay - which Institute of Economic Affairs Director Richard Wellings duly did in an anti-rail article in the Daily Telegraph."
- "The White House also sought to make political hay of the release of photos of Bill Clinton."
- "Young-Earth creationism, for instance, instantly struck me as absurd when I first learned about it from a history teacher in my public junior-high school, who confidently told me that the world is only a few thousand years old. That wasn’t what my family or church taught, but Christians who subscribed to those beliefs were suddenly ascendant, and their thinking colored the country’s religious landscape. Meanwhile, the New Atheists were making hay of the fact that such faithful misapprehensions about nature were easily disproved by scientific discovery."