up with the chickens
up with the chickens
Awake at a particularly early hour, especially at or before sunrise (i.e., the hour when chickens wake). I'm sorry, but I have to get going. I have to be up with the chickens tomorrow. Ma is up with the chickens every day to prepare breakfast for the farmhands.
See also: chicken, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- up with the roosters
- up with the lark
- up with the lark(s)
- be up with the chickens
- get up with the chickens
- lark
- be up with the lark(s)
- wake up with the chickens
- up with the crows
- be up with the crows