be up with the chickens
be up with the chickens
To be awake 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 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.
- get up with the chickens
- up with the chickens
- wake up with the chickens
- up with the lark
- up with the lark(s)
- lark
- be up with the lark(s)
- up with the roosters
- up with the crows
- be up with the crows