get up with the chickens
get up with the chickens
To wake up at a particularly early hour, especially at or before sunrise (i.e., the hour when chickens wake). No, thank you, I won't have another drink. I have to get up with the chickens tomorrow. Ma gets up with the chickens every day to prepare breakfast for the farmhands.
See also: chicken, get, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- wake up with the chickens
- be up with the chickens
- up with the chickens
- up with the lark
- up with the lark(s)
- be up with the lark(s)
- lark
- up with the roosters
- go to bed with the chickens
- come home to roost