make hay

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   turn to one's advantage

   “The environmentalist lobby made hay of the nuclear plant accident”

   Broaderexploit

Questions about make hay

What does make hay mean?

make hay means "turn to one's advantage".

Is make hay a common word?

make hay is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.