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Chicken Little

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Chick·en Little  (chkn)
n.
A confirmed pessimist, particularly one who warns of impending disaster.
[After a character in a story who is hit on the head by an acorn and believes the sky is falling.]
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Noun1.Chicken Little - a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling


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Thus Chicken Little becomes too tired to worry about the falling sky, the three little pigs become two, and a small girl with a red hood finds a woodsman comes to her rescue before going to bed.
Simon & Schuster by Children's Bookwatch
William Jasper's "Last Word" from the April 4 issue would do Chicken Little proud.
A friend in need is a friend in deed by Fluckiger, Alan / The New American
It's hard not to be like Chicken Little when it comes to Asian soybean rust.
Editor's Notebook by Henderson, Pam / Farm Journal
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