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1 proverb
['provə:b](a well-known saying that gives good advice or expresses a supposed truth: Two common proverbs are `Many hands make light work' and `Don't count your chickens before they're hatched!') patarlė- proverbially
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don’t count your chickens before they are hatched — An instruction not to make, or act upon, an assumption (usually favourable) which might turn out to be wrong. The metaphorical phrase to count one’s chickens is also used. c 1570 T. HOWELL New Sonnets C2 Counte not thy Chickens that vnhatched be … Proverbs new dictionary
count one's chickens before they're hatched — {v. phr.}, {informal} To depend on getting a profit or gain before you have it; make plans that suppose something will happen; be too sure that something will happen. Usually used in negative sentences. * /When Jim said that he would be made… … Dictionary of American idioms
count one's chickens before they're hatched — {v. phr.}, {informal} To depend on getting a profit or gain before you have it; make plans that suppose something will happen; be too sure that something will happen. Usually used in negative sentences. * /When Jim said that he would be made… … Dictionary of American idioms
count\ one's\ chickens\ before\ they\ are\ hatched — v. phr. informal To depend on getting a profit or gain before you have it; make plans that suppose something will happen; be too sure that something will happen. Usually used in negative sentences: Don t count on things to turn out exactly as you … Словарь американских идиом
count\ one's\ chickens\ before\ they're\ hatched — v. phr. informal To depend on getting a profit or gain before you have it; make plans that suppose something will happen; be too sure that something will happen. Usually used in negative sentences: Don t count on things to turn out exactly as you … Словарь американских идиом
not\ count\ one's\ chickens\ before\ they\ are\ hatched — v. phr. informal To depend on getting a profit or gain before you have it; make plans that suppose something will happen; be too sure that something will happen. Usually used in negative sentences: Don t count on things to turn out exactly as you … Словарь американских идиом
count one's chickens before they are hatched — To plan or act on the basis of expectations or future results without conclusive evidence that they will be fulfilled • • • Main Entry: ↑chick count one s chickens before they are hatched see under ↑chick1 • • • Main Entry: ↑hatch … Useful english dictionary
don't catch your chickens before they're hatched — This means that you should wait until you know whether something has produced the results you desire, rather than acting beforehand. ( Don t count your chickens until they ve hatched is an alternative.) … The small dictionary of idiomes
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. — Don t count (your) chickens (before they re hatched). something that you say in order to warn someone to wait until a good thing they are expecting has really happened before they make any plans about it. You might be able to get a loan from the… … New idioms dictionary
Don't count chickens before they're hatched. — Don t count (your) chickens (before they re hatched). something that you say in order to warn someone to wait until a good thing they are expecting has really happened before they make any plans about it. You might be able to get a loan from the… … New idioms dictionary
count one's chickens before they're hatched — assume that something will be successful before it is certain Don t count your chickens before they re hatched. You re spending your money and you don t even have a job yet … Idioms and examples