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Chicken Little
noun
- a person who constantly warns that a calamity is imminent; a vociferous pessimist:
The Chicken Littles are warning that the stock market will collapse.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Chicken Little1
Example Sentences
“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.
So why the “Chicken Little” song about America’s declining might?
"We need to take these glaciers seriously without sounding like Chicken Little," Joughin said in an email.
“We need to take these glaciers seriously without sounding like Chicken Little,” Joughin said in an email.
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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