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Chicken Little

noun

  1. a person who constantly warns that a calamity is imminent; a vociferous pessimist:

    The Chicken Littles are warning that the stock market will collapse.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of Chicken Little1

From a character in nursery tales (also known as Henny Penny, Chicken-Diddle, or Chicken-Licken) who, when struck on the head by an object from above, panics and believes that the sky is falling
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“President Biden’s entire plan rested on the Chicken Little tactic of persuading Americans that the Internet would break in the absence of these so-called ‘net neutrality’ regulations,” Carr said in a statement.

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So why the “Chicken Little” song about America’s declining might?

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"We need to take these glaciers seriously without sounding like Chicken Little," Joughin said in an email.

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“We need to take these glaciers seriously without sounding like Chicken Little,” Joughin said in an email.

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Wheeler counsels: “Clear heads are needed to separate what is only hypothetical possibility based on worst-case assumptions” — the FAA’s Chicken Little scenario — “from what is highly probable based on real-world use.”

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