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Chicken Little
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English
Alternative forms
en Chicken Licken
Proper noun
Chicken Little
A children’s fable about a young chicken who, in the traditional version, believes the sky is falling after an acorn hits her head. Also known by other names including The Sky is Falling.
Translations
fable
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 杞人忧天
Hungarian: hu Csodacsibe
Noun
Chicken Little
The main character in this story, a hysterical young chicken; en by extension someone who resembles the character.
en 1982 Donald A. Marchand; Forest W. Horton Information Management in Public Administration Info Resources Press 0878150382 118 With so many “Chicken Littles” running around claiming the sky is about to fall, the men at the top normally cannot do much until “Henney Penney” and “Foxy Loxy” have also started screaming for help, or there is a convergence of alarm signals from a number of unrelated sources within the organization.
en 1995 w:David Peoples; w:Janet Peoples w:12 Monkeys Dr. Railly, you've given the alarmists a bad name. Surely there's very real and convincing data that the planet cannot survive the excesses of the human race. Proliferation of atomic devices, uncontrolled breeding habits, pollution of land, sea and air, the rape of the environment. In this context, isn't it obvious that Chicken Little represents the sane vision, and that Homo sapiens' motto, "Let's go shopping," is the cry of the true lunatic?
en https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/02/antarctica-doomsday-glacier-scientists-frustrated-iceberg Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ keeps scientists at bay with iceberg and sea ice 2022-02-02 Ian Joughin The Guardian “We need to take these glaciers seriously without sounding like Chicken Little,” Joughin said in an email.
Translations
character
Hungarian: hu Kotlik Csöpi
See also
en Henny Penny
Further reading
Henny Penny
en eponyms
en Chickens