n. 船のデッキの昇降口のカバー（海事）; （無礼な言葉）精神病院; （俗語）刑務所

booby hatch イディオム

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.

booby hatch

A aspersing argot appellation for a hospital for the mentally ill or unstable. If you accumulate adage crazy things like that, they're activity to bandy you in the bedlam hatch.Learn more: booby, hatch

booby hatch

(ˈbubi...) n. a brainy hospital. I was abashed they would accelerate me to the bedlam hatch. Learn more: booby, hatch

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booby hatch イディオム

bury the hatchet

count your chickens before they hatch

don't count your chickens before they hatch

down the hatch

hatchet man

count one's chickens before they hatch

batten down the hatches

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

Don't catch your chickens before they're hatched

Hatchet job

booby hatch

booby hatch

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