MAKE HAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make hay mean? 

• MAKE HAY (verb)
  The verb MAKE HAY has 1 sense:

1. turn to one's advantage

  Familiarity information: MAKE HAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKE HAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn to one's advantage

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

The environmentalist lobby made hay of the nuclear plant accident

Hypernyms (to "make hay" is one way to...):

exploit; work (use or manipulate to one's advantage)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

In that field, Adele, I was walking late one evening about a fortnight since—the evening of the day you helped me to make hay in the orchard meadows; and, as I was tired with raking swaths, I sat down to rest me on a stile; and there I took out a little book and a pencil, and began to write about a misfortune that befell me long ago, and a wish I had for happy days to come: I was writing away very fast, though daylight was fading from the leaf, when something came up the path and stopped two yards off me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)