spring fever

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spring fever

A feeling of restlessness, excitement, or laziness, brought on by the coming of spring.

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spring fever

the feeling of restlessness experienced by many people at the onset of spring

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

spring′ fe′ver

a listless, lazy, or restless feeling commonly associated with the beginning of spring.

[1855–60, Amer.]

Translations

irrequietezza di primavera

spring fever

(= energetic feeling) → Frühlingsgefühle pl; it must be spring fever! → das muss der Frühling sein!, es muss am Frühling liegen!

(= lassitude) → Frühjahrsmüdigkeit f

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Well, me and Tom Sawyer had the spring fever, and had it bad, too; but it warn't any use to think about Tom trying to get away, because, as he said, his Aunt Polly wouldn't let him quit school and go traipsing off somers wasting time; so we was pretty blue.

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Whether you're celebrating Passover, Easter or zero holidays this weekend, Hallmark Channel's giving everyone something to enjoy with its Spring Fever Movie Countdown marathon!

Hallmark's Spring Fever Movie Countdown Marathon Schedule

Given that dynamic, if you have spent the last two months in Qatar, you would know that the one thing that has taken the country by a storm is the Spring fever. This fever itself is essentially a feeling of restlessness and excitement felt at the beginning of spring, and one sure shot reason everyone in the country felt it strongly was because of the frequent rainfall that just doesn't seem to stop!

The joy of Spring festival

spring fever is, thank goodness, contagious, symptoms of itching is spread to cars and caravans etc, it's spring.

Always rely on fresh hope of spring

Whether you call it Cabin Fever or Spring Fever, now is the time to come out of hibernation and start preparing for those long, warm summer days!

Spring into a new season

IV is also known as Henoch-Schonlein purpura or HSP, and "spring fever" because it often appears in children in the spring following an upper respiratory infection.

IgA vasculitis may be more common in adults than assumed

* After a long Chicago winter, it is easy to let spring fever take over when ordering plants from catalogs and buying plants from garden centers.

Planting of certain flowers can begin

Spring fever is also visible amongst animals that inhabit the hills around my home.

Season to be Jolly

There will be lots, including Sipsmith London dry gin, Sipsmith London Cup, Sipsmith Sloe Gin, Tappers Gin Dark side Gin, Spring Fever, Three Fine Days, Winter Greens, Hydropathic, Egg Centric, Greenhalls, Thomas Dakin, Opihr Gin, Bloom London Gin, Liverpool Gin, JJ Whitley Elderflower Gin, JJ Whitley London Dry Gin, City of London Gin, Whitley Neil Gin, Whitley Neil Dry Gin, Bombay Sapphire, Star of Bombay, Gordon's Gin, Tanquarey, Tanquarey 10, London Dry, Brecon Gin, Brecon Botanicals Gin.

Gin festival is the perfect tonic

SPIRIT OF SPRING fever takes hold with a Spirit of Spring event at Arc, Stockton on Saturday, March 19, with two floors of stalls aimed at the renewal of home, garden, body, and mind.

Of mice, men, St Patrick and koalas

Last year, about 2,000 people visited the Spring Fever organised in the Capital.