"don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched" meaning in English

See don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proverb

Head templates: {{en-proverb}} don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched
  1. Alternative form of don't count your chickens before they're hatched. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: don't count your chickens before they're hatched
    Sense id: en-don't_count_your_chickens_before_the_eggs_have_hatched-en-proverb-~a-4WSI- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English proverbs, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched",
      "name": "en-proverb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "don't count your chickens before they're hatched"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English proverbs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of don't count your chickens before they're hatched."
      ],
      "id": "en-don't_count_your_chickens_before_the_eggs_have_hatched-en-proverb-~a-4WSI-",
      "links": [
        [
          "don't count your chickens before they're hatched",
          "don't count your chickens before they're hatched#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched",
      "name": "en-proverb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "don't count your chickens before they're hatched"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proverbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of don't count your chickens before they're hatched."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "don't count your chickens before they're hatched",
          "don't count your chickens before they're hatched#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched"
}

Download raw JSONL data for don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched meaning in English (0.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (8b3c49c and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.