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idiomchickensthe chickens (have) come home to roostused in order to say that someone is having to deal with the results of a mistake that they made or something bad that they did in the past:It's easy to take out a loan, but your chickens come home to roost when you lose your job.Today the chickens have come home to roost, and the socially disastrous policies of the last government are having their effect on the lives of ordinary people.don't count your chickens (before they're hatched)used in order to tell someone not to be too sure that what they are hoping for will happen:"We can buy a new car if I get the raise." "Don't count your chickens."Getting an Oscar would be wonderful, but I think it's too early to count my chickens.
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chicken n. a coward. Come on, let’s go. Don’t be a chicken. - (one's) (hand)writing is like chicken scratch
- a chicken and egg situation/problem
- a chicken in every pot
- a chicken-and-egg problem
- a chicken-and-egg situation
- a goner
- be no spring chicken
- be running around like a headless chicken
- be up with the chickens
- beat the dummy
- chicken
- chicken and egg
- chicken feed
- chicken fillet
- chicken out
- chicken out of (something)
- chicken out of something
- chicken out on
- chicken out on (one)
- chicken powder
- chicken-hearted
- chickens come home to roost
- chickens come home to roost, one's
- choke the chicken
- count chickens before they hatch
- count one's chickens before they hatch
- count your chickens
- count your chickens before they hatch
- count your chickens before they're hatched
- curses, like chickens, come home to roost
- don't count your chickens
- don't count your chickens before they hatch
- don't count your chickens before they're hatched
- for chicken feed
- for peanuts
- get up with the chickens
- go to bed with
- go to bed with the chickens
- have (hand)writing like chicken scratch
- If it ain't chickens, it's feathers
- like a chicken with its head cut off
- like a chicken with its head cut off, (run about)
- like a chicken with the pip
- like a headless chicken
- Mother Carey is plucking her chickens
- no chicken
- no spring chicken
- no spring chicken, (she's)
- not count your chickens
- one day chicken and the next day feathers
- rubber chicken dinner
- run about like a headless chicken
- run around like a chicken with its head cut off
- run around like a chicken with its head cut off and run in circles
- run around like a headless chicken
- running about like a headless chicken
- spring chicken
- up with the chickens
- wake up with the chickens
- you're chicken
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