get up with the chickens



get up with the chickens

To wake up 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 get up with the chickens tomorrow. Ma gets up with the chickens every day to prepare breakfast for the farmhands.
See also: chicken, get, up

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Yedidah-Biblical Hebrew
Chidubem-Western African, Igbo
Democritus-Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Iohanna-Biblical Latin
Nethanel-Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Eda (2)-Medieval English