Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
I put up my Christmas tree entirely too early. I'm one of those people.
Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.
Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.
Don't count your owls before they are delivered.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort of happen earlier for me, which happens to a lot of people. My 21st birthday was just a little boring. Not a great story.
I am the last person to start celebrating.
Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.
Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
I'm not counting any chickens.
Only a fool would think the league was already won after just ten games.
