🐔 Chicken
"Rule the roost"
Meaning
To be in charge.
About the chicken
Chickens startle easily and are tied to eggs before they hatch, which is where idioms about fear and counting rewards too early come from.
Example sentence
Grandma rules the roost in our family.
Test yourself
Which idiom means...
To be in charge.
More chicken idioms
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"Chicken feed"
A very small amount of money.
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"Chickens come home to roost"
Bad actions from the past cause problems later.
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"Count your chickens before they hatch"
To make plans based on success that has not happened yet.
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"Henpecked"
Often criticized or controlled by a partner.
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"Don't count your chickens before they hatch"
Do not make plans based on success that has not happened yet.
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"No spring chicken"
Not young anymore.