Chicken Little
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nounDefinition of CHICKEN LITTLE
: one who warns of or predicts calamity especially without justification
Examples of CHICKEN LITTLE
- <some called him Chicken Little, but the climatologist had the data to back up his warning on global warming>
Origin of CHICKEN LITTLE
from the fable in which a chick attempts to warn other barnyard animals that the sky is falling after she is struck on the head by a chance falling object
First Known Use: 1895
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