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| 单词 | chicken little |
| 释义 | Chicken Little in American English Informal a person who spreads baseless or exaggerated reports of danger; alarmist Word origin after the chicken in a children's story who, after being struck by a falling object,warns that the sky is fallingChicken Little in American Englishnoun 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 origin [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 thesky is falling] |
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