If it ain't chickens, it's feathers
If it ain't chickens, it's feathers.
Rur. There are always problems.; That is life. Now that I'm finally done with school, I've got to worry about getting a job. If it ain't chickens, it's feathers. He's got plenty of money now, but he's in such bad health he can't enjoy it. If it ain't chickens, it's feathers.
See also: feather, if
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- I've done my do
- whistlin' Dixie, you ain't just
- if you've a mind to do
- faunch around
- have more than one string to fiddle
- It's for a fact
- go at like a boy killing snakes
- have a bad case of the simples
- have hung up and salted
- It'll be a long day in January