“Fling in the Hay”
I have trouble finding anything about this. Google offers several quotes at the top of the results:
- Rowena Cory Daniells, "The King's Bastard", 2016
'You fancy her!'
Lence nodded, 'And what's more, I've tasted her sweet fruit.'
'No, you never!'
'Autumn cusp, in the hay after the Harvest Feast.'
[...]
'She deserves Better than a fling in the hay, Lence.'
'Well, that's all I can offer, remember?' Lence snapped. 'I'm to be married to the Merofynian kingsdaughter. So, go ahead, woo her, marry her if she'll have you. But one day she will be my mistress.'
- Elizabeth August, "Cinderella Story 3, 2014
"Besides, I like my independence. All I want is a little fling in the hay once in a while to satisfy my more primitive cravings, then I'm happy to be on my own again."
ngram finds nothing though, not even these google-books books.
It's pretty obvious that the saying relates to the "affair" definition of "[fling](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fling". So the preliminary question must be, which was first, is fling in this sense just an ellipsis?
The more current idiom seems to be a roll in the hay, agreeing roughly with the trivial meaning of fling "to throw". There, it's noted that hay can be a synonym for bed, and that roll in the hay can mean inconspicious children's play, frolicking.
Yet, I think I can read an inuendo in 1838
Ingraham, J. H. (Joseph Holt) "Burton; or The Sieges Volume 2]()", 1838
If it had been the spy-monk in thy case, he would not have let a maiden tuck him up in the hay, and leave him there to go to her lone pillow.
I'm trying to read hay as hay field, because I first associated German Springinsfeld (lit. jump into the field; It's an appelation, not one of the usual long German compound words, it appears like a speaking name, like Hans Guckindieluft "Johnny Look-at-Air"), although I'm not sure what a "hay field" should be, if long grass becomes hay only after the harvest. Anyhow, there the answer currently says it's military jargon, which needn't be original, and I'm hoping a quick fling in the hay can elucidate the question.
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I have trouble finding anything about this. Google offers several quotes at the top of the results:
- Rowena Cory Daniells, "The King's Bastard", 2016
'You fancy her!'
Lence nodded, 'And what's more, I've tasted her sweet fruit.'
'No, you never!'
'Autumn cusp, in the hay after the Harvest Feast.'
[...]
'She deserves Better than a fling in the hay, Lence.'
'Well, that's all I can offer, remember?' Lence snapped. 'I'm to be married to the Merofynian kingsdaughter. So, go ahead, woo her, marry her if she'll have you. But one day she will be my mistress.'
- Elizabeth August, "Cinderella Story 3, 2014
"Besides, I like my independence. All I want is a little fling in the hay once in a while to satisfy my more primitive cravings, then I'm happy to be on my own again."
ngram finds nothing though, not even these google-books books.
It's pretty obvious that the saying relates to the "affair" definition of "[fling](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fling". So the preliminary question must be, which was first, is fling in this sense just an ellipsis?
The more current idiom seems to be a roll in the hay, agreeing roughly with the trivial meaning of fling "to throw". There, it's noted that hay can be a synonym for bed, and that roll in the hay can mean inconspicious children's play, frolicking.
Yet, I think I can read an inuendo in 1838
Ingraham, J. H. (Joseph Holt) "Burton; or The Sieges Volume 2]()", 1838
If it had been the spy-monk in thy case, he would not have let a maiden tuck him up in the hay, and leave him there to go to her lone pillow.
I'm trying to read hay as hay field, because I first associated German Springinsfeld (lit. jump into the field; It's an appelation, not one of the usual long German compound words, it appears like a speaking name, like Hans Guckindieluft "Johnny Look-at-Air"), although I'm not sure what a "hay field" should be, if long grass becomes hay only after the harvest. Anyhow, there the answer currently says it's military jargon, which needn't be original, and I'm hoping a quick fling in the hay can elucidate the question.
meaning etymology
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I have trouble finding anything about this. Google offers several quotes at the top of the results:
- Rowena Cory Daniells, "The King's Bastard", 2016
'You fancy her!'
Lence nodded, 'And what's more, I've tasted her sweet fruit.'
'No, you never!'
'Autumn cusp, in the hay after the Harvest Feast.'
[...]
'She deserves Better than a fling in the hay, Lence.'
'Well, that's all I can offer, remember?' Lence snapped. 'I'm to be married to the Merofynian kingsdaughter. So, go ahead, woo her, marry her if she'll have you. But one day she will be my mistress.'
- Elizabeth August, "Cinderella Story 3, 2014
"Besides, I like my independence. All I want is a little fling in the hay once in a while to satisfy my more primitive cravings, then I'm happy to be on my own again."
ngram finds nothing though, not even these google-books books.
It's pretty obvious that the saying relates to the "affair" definition of "[fling](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fling". So the preliminary question must be, which was first, is fling in this sense just an ellipsis?
The more current idiom seems to be a roll in the hay, agreeing roughly with the trivial meaning of fling "to throw". There, it's noted that hay can be a synonym for bed, and that roll in the hay can mean inconspicious children's play, frolicking.
Yet, I think I can read an inuendo in 1838
Ingraham, J. H. (Joseph Holt) "Burton; or The Sieges Volume 2]()", 1838
If it had been the spy-monk in thy case, he would not have let a maiden tuck him up in the hay, and leave him there to go to her lone pillow.
I'm trying to read hay as hay field, because I first associated German Springinsfeld (lit. jump into the field; It's an appelation, not one of the usual long German compound words, it appears like a speaking name, like Hans Guckindieluft "Johnny Look-at-Air"), although I'm not sure what a "hay field" should be, if long grass becomes hay only after the harvest. Anyhow, there the answer currently says it's military jargon, which needn't be original, and I'm hoping a quick fling in the hay can elucidate the question.
meaning etymology
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I have trouble finding anything about this. Google offers several quotes at the top of the results:
- Rowena Cory Daniells, "The King's Bastard", 2016
'You fancy her!'
Lence nodded, 'And what's more, I've tasted her sweet fruit.'
'No, you never!'
'Autumn cusp, in the hay after the Harvest Feast.'
[...]
'She deserves Better than a fling in the hay, Lence.'
'Well, that's all I can offer, remember?' Lence snapped. 'I'm to be married to the Merofynian kingsdaughter. So, go ahead, woo her, marry her if she'll have you. But one day she will be my mistress.'
- Elizabeth August, "Cinderella Story 3, 2014
"Besides, I like my independence. All I want is a little fling in the hay once in a while to satisfy my more primitive cravings, then I'm happy to be on my own again."
ngram finds nothing though, not even these google-books books.
It's pretty obvious that the saying relates to the "affair" definition of "[fling](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fling". So the preliminary question must be, which was first, is fling in this sense just an ellipsis?
The more current idiom seems to be a roll in the hay, agreeing roughly with the trivial meaning of fling "to throw". There, it's noted that hay can be a synonym for bed, and that roll in the hay can mean inconspicious children's play, frolicking.
Yet, I think I can read an inuendo in 1838
Ingraham, J. H. (Joseph Holt) "Burton; or The Sieges Volume 2]()", 1838
If it had been the spy-monk in thy case, he would not have let a maiden tuck him up in the hay, and leave him there to go to her lone pillow.
I'm trying to read hay as hay field, because I first associated German Springinsfeld (lit. jump into the field; It's an appelation, not one of the usual long German compound words, it appears like a speaking name, like Hans Guckindieluft "Johnny Look-at-Air"), although I'm not sure what a "hay field" should be, if long grass becomes hay only after the harvest. Anyhow, there the answer currently says it's military jargon, which needn't be original, and I'm hoping a quick fling in the hay can elucidate the question.
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