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ChickenfeedIf something is small or unimportant, especially money, it is chickenfeed.
Spring chicken
Someone who's a spring chicken is very young, often inexperienced.
No spring chicken
If someone is no spring chicken, they are not young.
When the chickens come home to roost
When a person pays dearly for something bad he or she did in the past, the chickens come home to roost.
Like a headless chicken
If someone rushes about like a headless chicken, they move very fast all over the place, usually without thinking.
Handwriting like chicken scratch
If your handwriting is very hard to read, it is like chicken scratch.
Don't catch your chickens before they're hatched
This means that you should wait until you know whether something has produced the results you desire, rather than acting beforehand. ('Don't count your chickens until they've hatched' is an alternative.)
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
This idiomatic expression is used when it is not clear who or what caused something.
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