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.
See also:
  • 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