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?