The rooster makes all the noise, but the hen rules the roost.
The rooster may rule the roost, but the hen rules the rooster.
Fussing like an old hen.
Quit your squaking.
Tastes like chicken (to describe flavor of snake, armadillo, alligator, frog, possum)
Nest egg. (An egg left in the nest to encourage a pullet to lay her eggs there)
Scratching out a living. (Chickens are industrious birds)
Up with the chickens. (Roosters begin to crow before first light)
Walking on eggshells.
Take our flock and go (leave with the family)
Chicken lights (the small lights all over any big rig tractor-trailer)
A whistling girl and a crowing hen will always come to some bad end.
Work as hard as a hen hauling wood.
As scarce as hen's teeth
Get your hackles up (become visibly upset)
Fly the coop (leave home)
Dumb cluck (someone who doesn't get it)
Yolks on you (pun for joke)
Rulin' the roost
Does a chicken have lips? (meaning it was a stupid thing to say)
Hen party (all women gathering with a lot of laughter) Hen house (all women sharing a house)
Scrambled eggs (gold trim on the brim of navy officers hats)
Chick (young girl)
Chicken feed (not a lot of money)
Birds of a feather flock together
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
Feather your own nest
Don't want to put up a squawk
Hatch an idea
Coming home to roost
Why'd the chicken cross the road? (To prove to the possum that it CAN be done!)
To chicken out
Pecking order
Henpecked
Rule the Roost
Cock 'o the Walk
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched
Don't put all your eggs in one basket
Have to break eggs to make an omelet
Not everything it's cracked up to be
Something to crow about
Hen cackle (for a laugh)
To be a Mother Hen
Don't brood over it
Madder than a wet hen
Afraid the sky is falling (from Chicken Little fable)
Hard-boiled (tough)
Sunny side up (cheerful)
Over easy (soft)
Chicken scratch (handwriting)
To lay an egg (fail)
Run around like a chicken with its head cut off
Stick your neck out
Ruffle your feathers
Stick in your craw
Cock sure (being a braggart)
Bad egg
All chickens are the same color in the dark
Nobody here but us chickens
Strutting' your stuff
To bed with the chickens
Feather our nests
I'm going to wring his neck
Chicken s**t (petty stuff)
In a stew
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
As scarce as hen's teeth
Long long ago, when chickens had teeth (instead of "Once upon a time...")
Has neither chick nor child (petless, childless person who only needs to care for himself)
'A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.' Samuel Butler
And don't forget Dolly Parton's little threat in the movie " 9 to 5 " when she aimed a shotgun at her rotten boss and yelled "...or I'll change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot!"
""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3485 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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A.- This is copied from an email I got, with most of the political mumbo-jumbo removed. Love....Jill
So Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? RALPH NADER The chicken's habitat on the other side of the road had been polluted by unchecked industrial greed. The chicken did not reach the unspoiled habitat on the other side of the road because it was crushed by the wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV. MARTHA STEWART No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any inside information. DR SEUSS Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told. ERNEST HEMINGWAY To die in the rain. Alone. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question. GRANDPA In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough. BARBARA WALTERS Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road. JOHN LENNON Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together -- in peace. ARISTOTLE It is the nature of chickens to cross the road. KARL MARX It was a historic inevitability. CAPTAIN KIRK To boldly go where no chicken has ever gone before. SIGMOND FREUD The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity. BILL GATES I have just witnessed eChicken2004, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook... and Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken. ALBERT EINSTEIN Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken? COLONEL SANDERS Did I miss one?
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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Meaning feast or famine, or refrencing good days and bad.
You'd think that I should know more chicken sayings than just one, since I live in the town that is the birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and our county seat is the host of the World Chicken Festival.
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I have a chicken story.... When my boys were small, I taught art at a Montessori school in trade for the boys attending there. When the director retired and moved away a few years later they had a luncheon in her honor. I attended but didn't know many of the new teachers there since I had left years before. It was at a pretty populare restaurant in this town and I was seated across from a lady I really didn't know. We did some small talk as we were looking at the menu and she mentioned she had never eaten at this restaurant and didn't know what to order. (That should have been my first clue.) I was surprised because I knew she had lived in town a long time, but I said "Oh, well, they have really good fried chicken." In a very condescending tone she said, "I'm a vegetarian!" Now that was fine with me...hey if you came to my house I would fix you a vegitarian meal, but it was the WAY she said it that sort of annoyed me. The waitress came and we all placed our orders, she ordered a salad and I ordered chicken. I LIKE chicken! Finally our meals came and we are all small talking with everyone around us. She ate a few bites and why she felt her duty to chastize me, I didn't know, but she looked right at my chicken and said to the lady next to me, "I just don't understand how anyone can eat a living thing!" By that time I had had enough of her condescending attitude and haughty remarks (there were other issues that she ahd "touched on") and I looked her straight in the eye and said, "You know, I was raised on a farm and my job as a child was to take care of the chickens. They are nasty, smelly, aggresive animals and I eat 'em just out of spite!" THAT was the end of THAT conversation!! She watched me rather warily the rest of the meal as I enjoyed my chicken.
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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When do you have time to make signs when you spend time writing all this stuff down.
It is better than reading about vinyl application or computer stuff. Just correcting my spelling!
Very funny, thankyou Barbx
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-------------------- Barbara Murrell 4 Elements (Global)Ltd Ware Herts England barbara@4elementsglobal.com Posts: 87 | From: England | Registered: May 2003
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If God didn't want animals eaten, He wouldn't have made them out of meat!!!!
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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Don't count your chickens before they cross the road........!
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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John, your chickens are just TOO cute!!!!!!
BTW, I've got the one you sent me framed and it's going in a place of honour on my shop wall! A:)
Now that we have 28 of them, I notice they do smell a bit.....
We have 7 banty roosters destined for the BBQ....I can't bring myself to do the 'deed' so the sweet little old lady who gave them to us (she used to own my place years ago) will come over and help us do it later.
Maybe we will have them for my shop warming party?
I do notice that the more you have the more aggressive and competitive they are. They've even learned to surround my cat when he has a mouse and take it away from him!! They are good mousers, eat lots of bugs, slugs and even snakes and lizards. No, it doesn't effect the flavor of the eggs.....
A-I learned as a small child you chop their heads off and they run around for quite a while. I think I was four or five and at Grandma's in Missouri. I cannot remember if I ate the chicken the first time.
And my cockatiels start at daybreak. They have saved me a couple of times from turning off the alarm and going back to sleep.
Good post!
-------------------- Debbie Posts: 674 | From: USA | Registered: Feb 2001
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Debbie, my mawmaw did the same thing on sundays. She'd wring that chickens neck and then it would run around the yard. Scared the living daylights outa us kids. I didnt eat chicken for a long time after that. Never would go in my mawmaws yard alone either. I was afraid that headless chicken would get after me. brrrrrrr...
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