make hay while the sun shines

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Toactwhile anopportunityexists; to takeactionwhile asituationisfavorable.2023June 28, Ben Jones, “Are we getting rid of our (still useful) rolling stock too early?”, inRAIL, number986, page28:Until the mid-2010s, the ROSCOs 'made hay while the sun shone', taking advantage of growing passenger demand and expanding services to find homes for their rolling assets - in some cases, well beyond their expected design lives.; (literal,agriculture)To makehayduring favourable (dry) weather.

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