COLLECTIVE NOUNS, SIMILES, IDIOMS, METAPHORS and EXPRESSIONS
Chickens
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
  • A brood of chickens
  • A brood of chicks
  • A brood of hens
  • A chattering of chicks
  • A chattering of chickens
  • A clutch of chicken's eggs
  • A flock of chickens
  • A peep of chickens
  • ​A mews of capons (male chickens)
  • A run of poultry

​SIMILES
  • As scarce as chicken's teeth
  • As scarce as hen's teeth
  • As tender as a chicken
IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS
  • Bet on a lame rooster
  • Chicken out of (something)
  • Chicken!
  • Chicken in every pot
  • Chicken feed
  • Chicken hearted
  • Chicken skin
  • Cock-a-hoop
  • Cock-eyed
  • Cock sparrow
  • Cock and bull story
  • Don't count the chickens before they hatch
  • Feeling like a rooster in a hen house
  • Hen party
  • Hen-pecked husband
  • Like a chicken with its head cut off
  • Like a hen with one chicken
  • No spring chicken
  • Mad as a wet hen
  • Pecking order
  • That cock won't fight
  • The chickens come home to roost
  • This beats cock-fighting
  • To be cock of the walk
  • To cock a snook at
  • To live like fighting cocks
  • To rule the roost
  • To take a cock shot at
  • What came first, the chicken or the egg?