Chicken phrases

[bonder]

Last one is a rotten egg
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
goose bumps (or chicken skin)
If it ain't chickens, it's feathers (If it's not one thing, it's another)

 

[abhaya]

fox in the hen house

That was a grandma term it meant a con or smooth talker

 

[BitsyB]

"up with the chickens" and "go to bed with the chickens" meaning you get up early and/or go to bed early.

Which if you have chickens, is a given, at least the getting up part

I've heard the "nobody here but us chickens" alot- does any one know, is that the punchline of an old joke?

 

[featherbaby]

She jumped on me like a hen on a junebug!

Cock of the walk

The old counting game: "duck - duck - goose" for choosing players

 

[believer01]

Okay, I'm new here, hope I don't off on the wrong foot.........but what about........

if someone's really nasty, they're....

chickens**t!

 

[Tdub4chiks]

Going home to roost.

 

[KateZissou]

To reply to:

"I've heard the "nobody here but us chickens" alot- does any one know, is that the punchline of an old joke?"

Google: Louis Jordan. It's an old swing song. Lots of swing songs about chickens.

 

[KateZissou]

To reply to:

"I've heard the "nobody here but us chickens" alot- does any one know, is that the punchline of an old joke?"

Google: Louis Jordan. It's an old swing song. Lots of swing songs about chickens.

 

[Pele]

Hah! Fun thread! My favorite is "You old biddy!"