| 单词 | don't count your chickens |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdon't count your chickens (before they are hatched) b. don't count your chickens (before they are hatched) and variants: don't be too confident in anticipating success or good fortune before it is certain. ΚΠ ?1570 T. Howell Newe Sonets sig. C.ij Counte not thy Chickens that vnhatched be, Waye wordes as winde, till thou finde certaintee. 1577 W. Fulke Two Treat. against Papistes ii. ii. vii. 273 But that you loue to tell your chickens before they be hatched, you neede not greatly to boast of your winnings. 1772 J. Thompson Double Discov. in Poems ii. iii. 232 We have only been counting our chickens, before they were hatch'd. 1871 Quiver 11 Mar. 366/2 ‘Mother, five shillings a week is a regular fortune! I'll be able to give you a fine warm shawl at Christmas’... ‘Don't reckon your chickens before they are hatched’, said Mrs. Wilson. 2014 @jhbroch 11 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Don't want to count my chickens but it seems I've won May's fantasy football! < as lemmas |
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