Смысл: astrohatch

astrohatch[ʹæstrəhætʃ]
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hatch Идиома

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.

bury the hatchet|bury|hatchet

v. phr., informal To settle a quarrel or end a war; make peace. The two men had been enemies a long time, but after the flood they buried the hatchet.
Compare: MAKE UP⁵.

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

v. phr., informal To depend on getting a profit or gain before you have it; make plans that suppose something will happen; be too sure that something will happen. Usually used in negative sentences. When Jim said that he would be made captain of the team, John told him not to count his chickens before they were hatched. Maybe some of your customers won't pay, and then where will you be? Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

down the hatch!|down|hatch

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

hatchet face|face|hatchet

n. A long narrow face with sharp parts; also, a person with such a face. Johnny was sent to the principal's office because he called his teacher old hatchet face. He was hatchet-faced and not at all handsome.

hatchet job|hatchet|job

n. phr., slang 1. The act of saying or writing terrible things about someone or something, usually on behalf of one's boss or organization. When Phil makes speeches against the competition exaggerating their weaknesses, he is doing the hatchet job on behalf of our president. 2. A ruthless, wholesale job of editing a script whereby entire paragraphs or pages are omitted. Don, my editor, did a hatchet job on my new novel.

hatchet man|hatchet|man

n., colloquial 1. A politician or newspaper columnist whose job is to write and say unfavorable things about the opposition. Bill Lerner is the hatchet man for the Mayor's Party; he smears all the other candidates regularly. 2. An executive officer in a firm whose job it is to fire superfluous personnel, cut back on the budget, etc., in short, to do the necessary but unpleasant things. The firm hired Cranhart to be hatchet man; his title is that of Executive Vice President.

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

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In addition to the idioms beginning with hatchet, also see bury the hatchet.
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- hatchet job
- hatchet man

More Idioms/Phrases

hash over haste hat hat in the ring hatch hatchet hate hate someone's guts hats off to hatter haul haul off

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