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be up with the chickens

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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