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    What does “make hay while the sun shines” mean?

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    Make the most of a good chance while it lasts.

    “Sunny Saturday and nothing booked. Making hay while the sun shines.”

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    Where it comes from

    Farming: hay has to be cut and dried in a run of dry weather. John Heywood put “Whan the sunne shinth make hay” in his collection of English proverbs in 1546.

    What I think of “make hay while the sun shines”

    • Make hay while the sun shines, because the sun has a very short attention span.
    • Making hay while the sun shines is the original deadline.
    • Nobody makes hay any more. They just make plans and then it rains.

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    Sources: John Heywood, A Dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber of the Effectuall Proverbes in the Englishe Tounge (1546).

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