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Idiom: Don't count your chickens before they are hatched



 
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Idiom: Don't count your chickens before they are hatched #1 (permalink) Sun Apr 24, 2005 19:35 pm   Idiom: Don't count your chickens before they are hatched
 

Test No. incompl/inter-14 "Popular Idioms (1)", question 4

Don't count your chickens before they are ..........

(a) born
(b) fed
(c) hatched
(d) stolen

Test No. incompl/inter-14 "Popular Idioms (1)", answer 4

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

Correct answer: (c) hatched

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Don't count your chickens before they are born.
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Hi, why the idiom use the word hatched?

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Hatch #2 (permalink) Sun Apr 24, 2005 19:38 pm   Hatch
 

Here hatch means when the baby chicks come out of their shells.
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Hatch #3 (permalink) Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:01 am   Hatch
 

What's the meaning?
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Count your chickens #4 (permalink) Fri Aug 12, 2005 7:44 am   Count your chickens
 

Hi Jenny,

This expression means don't assume everything will be all right before it finally happens. For example: Wait for the result of your exams before you assume that you have passed them.

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Count your chickens #5 (permalink) Mon Mar 20, 2006 18:44 pm   Count your chickens
 

Alan wrote:
Hi Jenny,

This expression means don't assume everything will be all right before it finally happens. For example: Wait for the result of your exams before you assume that you have passed them.

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Hi,
is it possible to explain "hatched" as closed behind a hatch and ready to count ( they don't go to spread themselves away) :
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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched #6 (permalink) Mon Mar 20, 2006 19:00 pm   Don't count your chickens before they are hatched
 

Hi Jan, that's an interesting interpretation of the idiom. By the way, you probably mean that the chickens are ready to be counted? After all, chickens wouldn't pass a maths test, would they?

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