Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
proverb Don't make plans based on future events, outcomes, or successes that might not come to pass. When my mom heard that I was preparing my campaign before even being nominated, she warned me, "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched." Why are you begging to drive my car to school tomorrow when you still need to take your license test in the morning? Don't count your chickens before they're hatched, babe!
See also: before, chicken, count
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- teach a man to fish
- it takes a village
- village
- the best-laid plans
- the best-laid plans go astray
- the best-laid plans of mice and men
- best-laid plans go astray, the
- for want of a nail
- For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse ...
- change horses in midstream, don't