count chickens

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count chickens

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A reference to the proverb don't count your chickens before they're hatched

verb counts chickens · counting chickens · counted chickens

To trust in something good that is not yet certain. I was starting to count chickens, but then I had always worked on the principle that it was good to talk oneself out of being tired, or pessimistic.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see count, chicken.

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Русский	дели́ть шку́ру неуби́того медве́дя delítʹ škúru neubítovo medvédja

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@misc{count_chickens_2026,
  title = {count chickens},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/count%20chickens},
  urldate = {2026-11-08}
}