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spring fever

idiom
Meaning

A feeling of invigoration and restlessness associated with the arrival of the warm weather and renewal of nature in the spring season.


Examples
SIMPLE

I have spring fever and want to go outside.

CONTEXTUAL

The students are struggling to focus in class today because they all have a bad case of spring fever.

COMPLEX

As the winter frost finally receded, the restless villagers were overcome by spring fever, eager to abandon their hearths and wander the blooming countryside.

Anchors to
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    buck fever

    Excitement and nervousness felt by a new hunter upon seeing game.

  2. 02

    fever pitch

    Extreme excitement.

  3. 03

    Pierian spring

    The source of knowledge, inspiration, or learning.

  4. 04

    spring for

    To pay for; to offer money.

  5. 05

    spring in one's step

    Enthusiasm, energy or a positive outlook or cheerful attitude.

  6. 06

    spring to life

    To start to exist.

  7. 07

    spring to mind

    To appear suddenly in one's thoughts, often as an example of something.

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