haymaking
- n taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts
- n cutting grass and curing it to make hay
- Formidably acute and full of zest for life, she found no event too humble for her observation: haymaking, a ramble in the woods, the delight of fresh Breton butter.
- While Dwight Eisenhower was making hay at the Summit, the man who ran against him in 1952 was watching the haymaking down on the farm.
- There is precedent for political haymaking around something as innocuous as a presidential address to students.