"make hay while the sun shines" meaning in Anglais

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Verb

Audio: En-au-make hay while the sun shines.ogg Forms: to make hay while the sun shines [infinitive], makes hay while the sun shines [present, third-person, singular], made hay while the sun shone [preterite], made hay while the sun shines [participle, past], making hay while the sun shines [participle, present]
  1. Profiter d’une bonne situation ou d’un moment de calme pour faire ce que l’on veut ; battre le fer tant qu’il est chaud. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: fr-make_hay_while_the_sun_shines-en-verb-IDf5kNc6 Categories (other): Métaphores en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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