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that ain't hay
That's a great deal, especially of money; also, that's important. For example, He's making ten thousand a month, and that ain't hay. Originally used to describe a sum of money that is large, this phrase was later extended to other circumstances, as in She married a titled lord, and that ain't hay. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s]
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Readers are reduced to stunned silence or rudely irrelevant expostulations like "And that ain't hay, baby!"
The issue could not be put more baldly than it is in the Democrats' 1952 campaign song: The farmer's farmin' every day, Makin' money and that ain't hay!
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