The Idiom: Be no spring chicken : Not to be young anymore.

Sample Sentence: He must be ten years older than Grace, and she is no spring chicken.

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The Idiom: A chicken and egg situation : A situation in which it is impossible to say which of two things existed first and which caused the other.

Sample Sentence: It is a chicken and egg situation- I don't know whether I am bad at sciences because I am not interested in them or not interested in them  because not good at them.

Turkish Equivalence: Tavuk mu yumurtadan çıkar, yumurta mı tavuktan?

 

The Idiom: Chicken feed : A very small amount of money, especially money that paid for doing a job.

Sample Sentence: He pays his labourers chicken feed.

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The Idiom: Chicken hearted : Not brave.

Sample Sentence: These chicken-hearted bosses always seem to give in at the first sign of a strike.

Turkish Equivalence: Tavşan yürekli.

 

The Idiom: Chickens come home to roost : If you say that chickens are coming home to roost, you mean that bad or silly things done inthe past are beginning the cause problems.

Sample Sentence: There was too much greed in the past, and now the chickens are coming home to roost with crime and corruption soaring.

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The Idiom: Don't count your chickens (before they are hatched) : Something that you say in order to warn someone to wait until a good thing the are expecting has really happened before they make any plans for it.

Sample Sentence: You might be able to get a loan from the bank, but don't count your chickens.

Turkish Equivalence: Dereyi görmeden paçayı sıvama.

 

The Idiom: Like a headless chicken /  Run around like a chicken with its head cut off : If you do something like a headless chicken, you do it very quickly and without thinking carefully about what you are doing.

Sample Sentence: I have got so much work to do- I have been running around like a headless chicken all week.

Turkish Equivalence: Deli dana/tavuk gibi koşturmak.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/chicken

 

The Idiom: A chicken in every pot :  Enough food for every family.

Sample Sentence: No one will be hungry if there is a chicken in every pot.

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The Idiom: Like a chicken on a June bug : Very quickly, in a flash, before you can say Jack Robinson.

Sample Sentence: If you leave a chocolate bar on the table, Kathie will be on it- like a chicken on a June bug!

Turkish Equivalence: Göz açıp kapayana kadar.

http://esl-bits.net/idioms/idIndC.htm

 

The Idiom: Chicken-livered : Cowardly, easily scared.

Sample Sentence: The boy called his friend chicken-livered, which made him very angry.

Turkish Equivalence: Tavşan yürekli.

 

The Idiom: Chicken out of (doing) something : To stop doing something because of fear.

Sample Sentence: My frieend was planning to come with us, but he chickened out at the last moment.

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The Idiom: Go to bed with the chickens : To go to bed as the sun is setting, to go to bed very early.

Sample Sentence: My grandfather always goes to bed with the chicken because he work on a farm.

Turkish Equivalence: Tavuk gibi erkenden yatmak.

 

The Idiom: Play chicken : To do something dangerous in order to see who becomes frightened first and stops.

Sample Sentence: The two boys were playing chicken in the schoolyard.

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http://www.idiomconnection.com/birds.html#A1

 

The Idiom: Handwriting like a chicken scratch : If your handwriting is very hard to read, it is like a chicken scratch.

Sample Sentence: Her handwriting is like a chicken scratch so nobody can read it, even her.

Turkish Equivalence: Kargacık burgacık yazmak.

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/search.php?q=chicken

 

The Idiom: Chicken shit : Contemptibly petty or insignificiant, cowardly.

Sample Sentence: He has spent his life making up chicken shit rules that nobody follows anyway.

                               You are not too chicken shit to come along, are you?

Turkish Equivalence: Ivır zıvır işlerle uğraşmak.

http://www.answers.com/topic/chicken-shit

 

The Idiom: Have a chicken to pick with someone : To have something to argue about with someone.

Sample Sentence: He always has a chicken to pick with his wife.

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The Idiom: If it isn't chicken, its feathers : There is always a problem.

Sample Sentence: In my job, if it isn't chicken, its feathers.

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http://www.wellenglish.com/english/2008-04/1851.htm

  

The Idiom: A cock and bull story : An absurd and improbable story, used as an excuse or explanation.

Sample Sentence: She told me some cock and bull story about her car breaking down.

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The Idiom: To live like fighting cocks :  To enjoy the best possible food.

Sample Sentence: My neighbours live like fighting cocks.

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The Idiom: The cock of the walk : A man who is more fashinonable or important than other people.

Sample Sentence: He acts like the cock of the walk around the office.

Turkish Equivalence: Burnu havada.

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/idioms/animals/chicken.html

  

The Idiom: To cock a snook : To show that you don't respect something or someone by doing something that insults them.

Sample Sentence: In the end he refused to accept his award, cocking a snook at the film industry for which he had such contempt.

Turkish Equivalence: Nanik yapmak.

 

The Idiom: Go off at half cock : To suddenly give your opinion without preparing what you are saying or understanding the subject you are talking about, often because you are angry.

Sample Sentence: You don't listen! You just go off with half cock without even hearing the end of my sentence.

Turkish Equivalence:

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cock

 

The Idiom: Cock in the henhouse : This is used to describe a male in all-female environment

Sample Sentence: When he went to house, he felt himself as a cock in the henhouse.

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The Idiom: Proud as a peacock : Someone who is excessively proud.

Sample Sentence: He was proud as a peacock when he won the prize.

Turkish Equivalence:  

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/search.php?q=cock

  

The Idiom: Cock an eye/ear at something or somebody : To look at or listen to somebody or something carefully and with a lot of attention.

Sample Sentence: She was cocking an ear to her teacher while the teacher was telling the subject.

Turkish Equivalence: Kulak kesilmek.

http://www.tureng.com/search/cock

 

The Idiom: As mad as a wet hen : Angry.

Sample Sentence: The nurse was as mad as a wet hen when the patient tried to bite her.

Turkish Equivalence: Çılgına dönmek.

 

The Idiom: As scarce as hen's teeth / Scarcer than hen's teeth : Very scarce or nonexisting.

Sample Sentence: Cheap hotels in this city are as scarce as hen's teeth.

Turkish Equivalence:  

http://www.idiomconnection.com/birds.html#A1

 

The Idiom: To behave like a hen mother : To be very protective.

Sample Sentence: His mother behaves like a hen mother altough he is 25 years old.

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The Idiom: A hen party : Party for women only, usually the night before one of them gets married.

Sample Sentence: Since there is a hen party now, my husband can't enter the house.

Turkish Equivalence: Kına gecesi.

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/idioms/animals/chicken.html

  

The Idiom: As fussy as a hen with one chick : Over anxious about small matters like a hen which never leaves an only chick alone and is constantly fussing.

Sample Sentence: She is as fussy as a hen with one chick.

Turkish Equivalence: 

http://www.legbarsofbroadway.co.uk/cgi-bin/fullxml/default.asp?id=31&mnu=31

 

The Idiom: A stag party/night : Party for men only, usually the night before one of them gets married.

Sample Sentence: There is a stag party in Martin's house because he is getting married tomorrow.

Turkish Equivalence: Bekarlığa veda partisi.

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/idioms/animals/chicken.html 

 

The Idiom: Go stang : If a man goes stang to a social event, he goes without a woman.

Sample Sentence: He usually prefers to go stang to parties.

Turkish Equivalence: Damsız gitmek. 

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stag