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Superstition: Animals

Don't count your chickens before they hatch

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From Friends

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Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects

Where learned: HOME ; Beattie, Cathy

Keyword(s): assume ; assumption ; Chickens ; Eggs ; Hatch

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb

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Proverb

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

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From - Uncertain

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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE ; Whittlesey, Steve

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Chickens ; Egg ; Eggs ; GREED ; Greedy ; Hatch ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

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Original BN [V400] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Chickens ; Hatch ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

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From my mother.

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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Chickens ; Expectation ; Maxim ; METAPHOR ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

Never count your chickens before they're hatched.

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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Chickens ; Eggs ; Expectation ; Maxim ; METAPHOR ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

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My mother would always tell me this whenever I would plan on something before it happened.

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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Chickens ; Eggs ; Gamble ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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