Chicken phrases

[suburban]

Egghead! LOL!

don't count your chickens before they've hatched.

 

[dsqard]

Brooding over something (thinking deeply and possibly being grouchy)
Laid an egg (failed at something why I don't know this is failing, I want mine to lay eggs!

)
Rotten egg (someone mean)
good egg (someone nice)
spring chick

 

[chickenology]

(cheap as) chicken feed.

 

[suburban]

I ruffled a few feathers!

 

[melloladies]

nobody here but us chickens!

 

[Winggedheart]

I love the 'running around like a chicken with its head cut off,' phase, though my family don't cull our birds. Lol.

 

[SparksNV]

I can hear it now just like it was 35 yrs ago:

"CHICKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" followed with alot of "BOK BOK BOK" and arms flapping, butt sticking out, legs bent, and the head moving!

 

[teach1rusl]

Referring to someone as an "old biddy"
scarce as hens' teeth

 

[sharol]

Dumb cluck

 

[jason_boivin]

Cheap as chicken scratch
Too many roosters in the hen house