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词组 hen
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hen

like a hen with one chick (or chicken) absurdly fussy and overanxious.

rare (or scarce) as hen's teeth extremely rare.

☞ As hens do not possess teeth, the implication is that something is rare to the point of non-existence. The phrase was originally a US colloquialism, dating from the mid 19th century.

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