don't count your chickens before they're hatched

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谚语
  1. One should not depend upon a favorable (and typically overoptimistic) outcome to one's plans until it is certain to occur.
    — [...] Make Fools believe in their fore-seeing / Of things before they are in Being; / To swallow Gudgeons ere th' are catch'd, / And count their Chickens ere th' are hatch'd, [...]

词形变化

don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched alternative don't count your chickens before they hatch alternative don't count your chickens before they've hatched alternative don't count your chicks before they hatch alternative don't count your chicks before they're hatched alternative don't count your chickens alternative don't count your chicks alternative

词源

First attested in English in Thomas Howell's 1570 New Sonnets and Pretty Pamphlets in the couplet "Counte not thy Chickens that vnhatched be, / Waye wordes as winde, till thou finde certaintee", possibly deriving from similar medieval and early modern Latin fables and maxims.
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