Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom
Ag Etymology
Poultry and Eggs
| egghead - An intellectual. golden egg - Great profit. spring chicken - A young woman. chickens coming home to rost - A person's words or acts come back to cause trouble like a chicken on a June bug - very quickly
mad as a wet hen - very angry Don't put all your eggs in one basket. - Don't risk all you have on just one thing. pecking order - The way people are ranked in relation to each other. walking on egg shells - Behaving in a careful manner so as not to offend someone. egg on - Urge someone on. like a chicken with its head cut off - In a hurried or disorganized way. egg on your face - Embarrassed. lucky break - Unexpected good fortune chicken feed - Asmall sum of money bad egg - A person who disappoints expectations counting your chickens before they hatch - Depending on getting something before you actually get it.
Related lesson: A Lucky Break
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