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chicken

n. a coward. Come on, let’s go. Don’t be a chicken.

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• (one's) (hand)writing is like chicken scratch
• a chicken and egg situation
• a chicken in every pot
• a goner
• be no spring chicken
• be up with the chickens
• beat the dummy
• chicken
• chicken and egg situation
• chicken feed
• chicken fillet
• chicken out
• chicken out of something
• chicken out on
• chicken powder
• chicken shit
• chicken-hearted
• chickens come home to roost
• choke the chicken
• count chickens before they hatch
• count one's chickens before they hatch
• curses, like chickens, come home to roost
• Don't count chickens
• don't count your chickens before they're hatched
• for chicken feed
• for peanuts
• get up with the chickens
• go to bed with
• go to bed with the chickens
• have (hand)writing like chicken scratch
• If it ain't chickens, it's feathers
• like a chicken with its head cut off
• like a chicken with the pip
• like a headless chicken
• Mother Carey is plucking her chickens
• no spring chicken
• one day chicken and the next day feathers
• rubber chicken dinner
• run around like a chicken with its head cut off and run in circles
• spring chicken
• up with the chickens
• wake up with the chickens
• you're chicken