chicken

chicken idiom
In addition to the idioms beginning with chicken, also see count one's chickens; go to bed with (the chickens); like a chicken with its head cut off; no spring chicken.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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