How to pronounce “count chickens”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• To trust in something good that is not yet certain.
• Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see count,‎ chicken.

Practice Nearby Words

count one's chickens, foretrust, half-expect, promise, ante, halfexpect, count down, wait and see, hold tight, wait till the clouds roll by, anticipate, look before one leaps, posticipate, plan on, forehold, play for time, stand by, foreprize, get ahead of oneself, look beyond, look past, keep one's powder dry, look ahead, forebelieve, precounsel, stock up on, forecount, discount, preconfirm, provide, lay aside, pretender, temporize, wait for, forecall, dread, forelook, auspicate, predoom, forepromise, wait one's turn, be in for, forereckon, wait in the wings, put the cart before the horse, foretaste, precertify, see beyond, previse, fore-give, outwait, front up, preconsider, advance, prognosticate, jump to conclusions, stall, prepense, hold it in, pretell, preallocate, forewatch, have another thing coming, pre-suppose, preoccupate, foretest, precommit, guard against, foretoken, save something for a rainy day, precaution, prophesy, forecast, forestall, look ahead to, should, prophecise, speculate, be a hundred years too early, prefix, preattend, foreguess, foreclaim, forevouch, forethink, preconform, back-pocket, preordain, adumbrate, foreknow, preshadow, precogitate, foresee, forebode, foreapprove, foredream, predye, precheck, count in, prestate

Similar Sounds

kentuckians, candy canes, contusions, canticles, kunta kinte, contagions, cardigans, continence, contaction, kanakas