Chicken Idioms

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running around like a headless chicken = behaving frantically

 

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don’t count your chickens until they’re hatched = don’t make assumptions; wait until you are sure

 

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the chickens are coming home to roost = the results of bad karma are being realized

 

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鸡口牛后 = Literally, it means '[prefer to be a small and clean] chicken's mouth, [rather than a big and filthy] cow's rear'. This idiom is a metaphor of preferring to have one's autonomy in a small place, rather than being in a big place yet ruled by others.