no chicken

no spring chicken

slang No longer young or youthful. (A "spring chicken" refers to a young chicken.) I'm no spring chicken, so I can't stay out till 2 AM drinking and dancing anymore.
See also: chicken, no, spring
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

no (spring) chicken

not a young person. euphemistic
2005 Molly Hart Road to Ruination She must've been in at least her mid-forties, she was no spring chicken, but she looked good for her age.
See also: chicken, no
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • be no spring chicken
  • no spring chicken
  • spring chicken
  • spring
  • chicken out of (something)
  • chicken out of something
  • chicken out
  • you're chicken
  • be full of the joys of spring
  • full of the joys of spring
References in periodicals archive
Captain James T Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
Some fowl play over that age-old vexed question