The idiomatic expression
"to make hay" means to take advantage of a situation or opportunity, often implying that one is working hard or seizing an opportunity while it lasts.
Full definition
That promises to keep investment opportunities hot for savvy market watchers, paving the way for strong sales as practitioners
make hay while the sun shines.
The news headlines
make hay of these swings, and investor emotions can ride along with the dramatic stories.
It is too valuable a gem to lose and simply pass over to other countries to
make hay with.
It clears the way for Labour to
make hay on the economy.
But to
make hay from this information — to put theory into practice — you need to get actual quotes.
It really does pay to
make hay whilst it is sunshine and for this reason you would need to secure your future investments with the right moves.
In a boom and bust economy where things go up and things go down, you've got to, as they say here,
make hay when the sun shines, right?
Another way manufacturers are
making hay more attractive is by mixing in additions, such as dried flowers or herbs.
It's a precarious situation for a lot of properties but we are
making hay for now.
It's that time of the year again when spring brings forth all her colorful glory — including a host of allergens that can
make hay fever sufferers miserable.
Our lead guides don't have to sit around waiting for tours to fill — we keep you
busy making your hay while the sun is shining!
Its expensive, and they have to do a good job, or silly skeptics will
make hay of it.
I can certainly understand that counties want to
make a hay on the general price appreciation in most of the areas.
Stephen Harper's political opponents
make hay over report that Canada is in midst of technical recession
I know from recent history that the ice has been down as far as the Bay of Biscay and up far enough that folks
made hay in Greenland.
I doubt that effort will be full successful because many developing countries
make hay about historical responsibility and use it as a cover for demands of compensation and for inaction.
What followed is pretty illustrative of the value of such pledges: his political
opponents made some hay out of it for a while, late - night comedians had a field day with it, and then some other news happened and everybody pretty much forgot the whole thing.
Phil Mickelson did
not make his hay on that La Quinta opportunity, but said after the round he can never seem to play well there and actually bucks the trend, going lower at the other two courses.
Mayfield also
made some hay against Ohio State's rather ridiculous coverages of OU's spread, trips (three WRs to one side) formations.
Red Sparrow may keep Dominika at arm's length from us, but Jennifer
Lawrence makes hay of having to play a walking enigma.
But no one fulfills his duty better than that lanky slice of wry known as Bill Nighy, who plays an aging matinee idol
making hay as younger thespians are otherwise engaged.
Still, political
rivals made hay on social media of the fact that a number of signatories are backers of the left - leaning New Democrats (NDP), including politicians like former Ontario provincial NDP leader Stephen Lewis, artists like film - maker Sarah Polley, and trade union members like Canadian Union of Public Employees president Paul Moist.
And last fall the new CEO at ailing insurer
AIG made hay with demoralized employees by firing McKinsey and mocking its Project Destiny plan.
They were
still making hay with their gigantic SLR models, adding ever more sensitive sensors to capture even more pixels.
Bogut enjoyed some early success despite two fouls,
making hay down low with eight quick points and several thunderous dunks.
2017 Georgia's
really making hay off beating overpriced private schools, aren't they?
Will it be taken or will we revert to type, clogging the middle of the park while Lennon and
Bale make hay on the flanks.
The Barrons, with their Panther past and Garveyite «anti-gentrification» platform, will
surely make hay of their opponent's ties to moneyed interlopers.
The appeal comes after Norquist and the Long
campaign made hay over Rep. Bob Turner's comments to Capital Tonight that he would be open to closing tax loopholes.
In his first run for the seat, Mr.
Grimm made hay of Mr. McMahon's record — slamming him for voting in favor of a property tax hike in 2002, dotting the borough with bright yellow signs about the tax hike.
He'll make his pitch for financial reform in the heart of lower Manhattan Thursday — even as his
team make hay of the Goldman Sachs fiasco with a tech savvy appeal to Democratic donors.
Instead, as the Lib
Dems made hay, the party did not formally re-select Kashif as candidate until mid-December - the last of the three main parties formally to pick their candidate.
While DeRosa pledged to recuse herself from any issues where relatives had a stake, the perception of this web of connections can't help Cuomo when an opponent in
Iowa makes hay out of it.
This did not stop
Miliband making hay about the issue in prime minister's questions, although he preferred to concentrate his fire on the chaos emanating, so the Royal College of Nurses claimed, from accident and emergency.
Last week, as the
press made hay with the policy report on the environment, conjuring up lurid headlines about higher taxes on flights, driving and shopping, Cameron looked on the back foot.
Bernardo, a Web - savvy pol, rather naively took umbrage at a
reporter making hay of her «private» Facebook message «to a few friends.»
The more the
party makes hay with Alex Salmond, who they might be surprised to learn isn't a household name in England and Wales, the more the spotlight falls on their would - be UKIP enablers.