Don't Count Your Chickens Before They're Hatched Definition

One should not depend upon a favorable (and typically overoptimistic ) outcome to one's plan until it is certain to occur .

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Origin of Don't Count Your Chickens Before They're Hatched

  • First attested in English in Thomas Howell 's 1570 New Sonnets and Pretty Pamphlets in the couplet "count not thy chicken that unhatched be, / weigh words as wind , till thou find certainty ", possibly deriving from similar medieval and early modern Latin DONT COUNT YOUR CHICKENS BEFORE THEYRE HATCHED fables and maxims.

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