sky is falling, the

An absurd belief that disaster is imminent. The term comes from a fable about a chicken who believes the sky is falling when an acorn falls on its head. In various versions, the chicken is called “chicken little” or “henny penny.” Many novels, films, and songs with the title “The Sky Is Falling” have been issued, as well as versions of the story. Among them is a 1943 Walt Disney film, Chicken Little, and a book, The Remarkable Story of Chicken Little, published in 1865. The phrase, now a cliché, remains current. The New York Times op ed page had a piece by Charles M. Blow about social networking that used it: “I am by no means a woe-is-us, sky-is-falling, evil-is-the Internet type” (June 12, 2010).

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释义	sky is falling, the sky is falling, the An absurd belief that disaster is imminent. The term comes from a fable about a chicken who believes the sky is falling when an acorn falls on its head. In various versions, the chicken is called “chicken little” or “henny penny.” Many novels, films, and songs with the title “The Sky Is Falling” have been issued, as well as versions of the story. Among them is a 1943 Walt Disney film, Chicken Little, and a book, The Remarkable Story of Chicken Little, published in 1865. The phrase, now a cliché, remains current. The New York Times op ed page had a piece by Charles M. Blow about social networking that used it: “I am by no means a woe-is-us, sky-is-falling, evil-is-the Internet type” (June 12, 2010). See also: sky The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: pull the chestnuts out of the fire, to then blue chamber chamber cockamamie bell the cat, who will who will bell the cat bell the cat rocks in one's head, have have rocks in head References in periodicals archive Perhaps I should have titled this "The Sky is Falling, The Sky is Falling!" By now you have heard rumors and comments that vacancies have risen, we're overbuilt, and that the industry is well on its proverbial way "to hell in a hand basket" (one of my grandfather's favorite expressions). WHAT DOES THE CRYSTAL BALL SAY?
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