“Meaning of ‘counting chickens before hatching’?”

“Don’t count chickens before they hatch” means not to assume you have something before you actually do. It comes from an ancient fable by Aesop about a milkmaid who spilled her milk while daydreaming. Don’t count chickens before they hatch is an old adage which means, in general, don’t act like you have something before […]

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