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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Superstition: Animals
Don't count your chickens before they hatch
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From Friends
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Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): assume ; assumption ; Chickens ; Eggs ; Hatch
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb |
Proverb
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
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From - Uncertain
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Chickens ; Egg ; Eggs ; GREED ; Greedy ; Hatch ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Chickens ; Hatch ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
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 |
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 |
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 |