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Make hay

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  1. 1
    To cut grass to turn into hay for animal feed. literally
  2. 2
    turn to one's advantage wordnet
  3. 3
    To take advantage of an opportunity. figuratively

    "I suggested that this was a mistake, particularly at a time of national crisis on the railways, because it opened the way for critics of the railway to make hay - which Institute of Economic Affairs Director Richard Wellings duly did in an anti-rail article in the Daily Telegraph."

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