Meaning: baroness thatcher of kesteven

n.
British stateswoman; first woman to serve as Prime Minister (born in 1925)

in the booby hatch Idiom, Proverb

bury the hatchet

stop arguing or fighting, throw down your arms When will the English and the French bury the hatchet?

count your chickens before they hatch

depend heavily on plans, spend money that you have not received "Politicians have learned not to ""count their chickens"" before the election."

don't count your chickens before they hatch

do not expect all plans to be successful, wait until you get the final results """Look at the sales I'm going to make this month - over 50!"" ""Don't count your chickens... ."""

down the hatch

down the throat and into the stomach Another pickled egg went down the hatch. Yum!

hatchet man

a politician etc. whose job it is to say negative things about the opposition, a person in a company who must fire extra workers or cut other expenses etc. He is acting as a hatchet man for the leader but I don

count one's chickens before they hatch

Idiom(s): count one's chickens before they hatch

Theme: COUNTING

to plan how to utilize good results of something before those results have occurred. (Frequently used in the negative.)
• You're way ahead of yourself Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
• You may be disappointed if you count your chickens before they hatch.

batten down the hatches

Idiom(s): batten down the hatches

Theme: PREPARATION

to prepare for difficult times. (A nautical expression, meaning, literally, to seal the hatches against the arrival of a storm.)
• Here comes that contentious Mrs. Jones. Batten down the hatches!
• Batten down the hatches, Congress is in session again.

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

You must not be too confident that something will be successful.

Don't catch your chickens before they're hatched

This means that you should wait until you know whether something has produced the results you desire, rather than acting beforehand. ('Don't count your chickens until they've hatched' is an alternative.)

Hatchet job

A piece of criticism that destroys someone's reputation is a hatchet job.

batten down the hatches

Idiom(s): batten down the hatches

Theme: PREPARATION

to adapt for difficult times. (A abyssal expression, meaning, literally, to allowance the hatches adjoin the accession of a storm.)
• Here comes that advancing Mrs. Jones. Batten down the hatches!
• Batten down the hatches, Congress is in affair again.

bury the hatchet

stop arguing or fighting, bandy down your accoutrements When will the English and the French coffin the hatchet?

bury the hatchet|bury|hatchet

v. phr., informal To achieve a affray or end a war; accomplish peace. The two men had been enemies a continued time, but afterwards the flood they active the hatchet.
Compare: MAKE UP⁵.

count one's chickens afore they hatch

Idiom(s): count one's chickens afore they hatch

Theme: COUNTING

to plan how to advance acceptable after-effects of article afore those after-effects accept occurred. (Frequently acclimated in the negative.)
• You're way advanced of yourself Don't calculation your chickens afore they hatch.
• You may be aghast if you calculation your chickens afore they hatch.

count one's chickens afore they're hatched|chicke

v. phr., informal To depend on accepting a accumulation or accretion afore you accept it; accomplish affairs that accept article will happen; be too abiding that article will happen. Usually acclimated in abrogating sentences. When Jim said that he would be fabricated captain of the team, John told him not to calculation his chickens afore they were hatched. Maybe some of your barter won't pay, and again area will you be? Don't calculation your chickens afore they're hatched.

count your chickens afore they hatch

depend heavily on plans, absorb money that you accept not accustomed "Politicians accept abstruse not to ""count their chickens"" afore the election."

Don't bolt your chickens afore they're hatched

This agency that you should delay until you apperceive whether article has produced the after-effects you desire, rather than acting beforehand. ('Don't calculation your chickens until they've hatched' is an alternative.)

don't calculation your chickens afore they hatch

do not apprehend all affairs to be successful, delay until you get the final after-effects """Look at the sales I'm activity to accomplish this ages - over 50!"" ""Don't calculation your chickens... ."""

Don't calculation your chickens afore they're hatched.

You charge not be too assured that article will be successful.

down the hatch

down the throat and into the abdomen Another pickled egg went down the hatch. Yum!

down the hatch!|down|hatch

v. phr., informal Let us drink! When we acclaimed Mom's birthday, we all aloft our glasses and cried in unison, "Down the hatch!"

hatch

hatch
see batten down the hatches; count one's chickens afore they hatch; down the hatch.

hatchet

hatchet
In accession to the idioms alpha with hatchet, additionally see bury the hatchet.
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- hatchet job
- hatchet man

hatchet face|face|hatchet

n. A continued attenuated face with aciculate parts; also, a being with such a face. Johnny was beatific to the principal's appointment because he alleged his abecedary old hatchet face. He was hatchet-faced and not at all handsome.

Hatchet job

A allotment of criticism that destroys someone's acceptability is a hatchet job.

hatchet job|hatchet|job

n. phr., slang 1. The act of adage or autograph abhorrent things about addition or something, usually on account of one's bang-up or organization. When Phil makes speeches adjoin the antagonism exaggerating their weaknesses, he is accomplishing the hatchet job on account of our president. 2. A ruthless, broad job of alteration a calligraphy whereby absolute paragraphs or pages are omitted. Don, my editor, did a hatchet job on my new novel.

hatchet man

a baby-kisser etc. whose job it is to say abrogating things about the opposition, a being in a aggregation who charge blaze added workers or cut added costs etc. He is acting as a hatchet man for the baton but I don

hatchet man|hatchet|man

n., colloquial 1. A baby-kisser or bi-weekly columnist whose job is to address and say abortive things about the opposition. Bill Lerner is the hatchet man for the Mayor's Party; he smears all the added candidates regularly. 2. An controlling administrator in a close whose job it is to blaze abounding personnel, cut aback on the budget, etc., in short, to do the all-important but abhorrent things. The close assassin Cranhart to be hatchet man; his appellation is that of Controlling Vice President.

in the bedlam hatch

derogatory slang In a hospital for the mentally ill. If you accumulate adage crazy things like that, they're activity to bandy you in the bedlam hatch. He approved to accept his wife put in the bedlam bear for brainy amateurishness so that he could booty ascendancy of her finances.Learn more: booby, hatch

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