roll in the hay
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- idiom
- NSFW
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acostarse
- Have you seen Went for a roll in the hay!
Examples
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Hoods are good for a roll in the hay, but you don't marry them.
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Despite all your highfalutin talk about streamlining the office, what you really need is a good old-fashioned roll in the hay.
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Would you like to have a roll in the hay?
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So what difference does a little roll in the hay make?
Fiction book (1999) -
Suddenly, my morning roll in the hay with Tracy gets canceled.
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Not that I'd mind a roll in the hay with Michael Tinsley.
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Would you like to have a roll in the hay after the party?
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So what difference does a little roll in the hay make between friends?
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Come on, cowboy, how about a little roll in the hay under the stars?
Synonyms
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Sex between two people
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Sex between two people
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Sex between two people, often used as a rude word
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Sex between people for pleasure
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To have sex with someone
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A casual word for sex
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Sex between people
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A sexual activity between adults
How Casual
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase uses literal words ('roll', 'in', 'hay') whose combined literal sense would suggest physically rolling in a pile of hay, not sexual activity; the sexual meaning is a euphemistic, culturally specific extension that cannot be predicted from the constituents. A B1 learner who knows the individual words but hasn’t seen the idiom before is unlikely to infer the intended meaning without prior exposure or cultural knowledge, so the expression is idiomatic and not transparently compositional.
Etymology
Roll in the hay may come from old farm life, where lovers would literally roll together in a pile of hay in a barn. So it now means 'an act of casual or playful sex'.