don't count your chickens before they're hatched

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(勿打)如意算盘

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don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched don't count your chickens before they hatch don't count your chickens before they've hatched don't count your chicks before they hatch don't count your chicks before they're hatched don't count your chickens don't count your chicks

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

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

    (勿打)如意算盘

    (别)一厢情愿

    (别做)(别做)白日梦

词源

First attested in English in Thomas Howell's 1570 New Sonnets and Pretty Pamphlets in the couplet "Counte not thy Chickens that vnhatched be, / Waye wordes as winde, till thou finde certaintee", possibly deriving from similar medieval and early modern Latin fables and maxims.

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