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make hay

/hey/US // heɪ //UK // (heɪ) //

打草惊蛇,干草,打扫卫生,干草料

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage.
    • : grass mowed or intended for mowing.
    • : Slang. a small sum of money: Twenty dollars an hour for doing very little certainly ain't hay.money: A thousand dollars for a day's work is a lot of hay!
    • : Slang. marijuana.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to convert into hay.
    • : to furnish with hay.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inaccomplish

Examples

  • We grew up bailing hay and chasing cows around and riding four wheelers and digging holes into the ground.

  • Other politicians make hay out of their opposition to mandated mask-wearing, using those mandates — themselves a function of the density of people who otherwise refuse to wear one — as a way to trumpet their liberty bona fides.

  • Some SSPs will struggle if they’re unable to afford proposed commercial terms and have to sit back and do nothing while their competitors make hay.

  • It was refreshing but not perfumy, with notes of hay and earth that I’d never smelled in a shower product.

  • Yet it feels like the bulk of the hay is in the barn when it comes to the at-large field.

  • But I sent him some hay and some information and he turned it around.

  • The less scrupulous have made financial hay out of a diagnosis that promises easy access to stimulants.

  • “I think this is part of the inside game that junkies make hay out of,” he said.

  • After that, who knows how many innocent straws of hay will start to look like needles under the gaze of unseen algorithms.

  • The straw and hay piled around the tent only exacerbated the situation.

  • The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.

  • The challenge was accepted and the hay-wagon driven round and the trial commenced.

  • As she left the wood she saw a big hay-stack, as firm and shapely of outline as a house, not a loose wisp anywhere.

  • Some of the half-made hay in the meadows looks as though it had been standing out to bleach for the last fortnight.

  • Mr. Rushmere had been called away to the town on business, and the lovers had been working all day in the hay-field.