Chicken Little Hear it!

Chicken Little definition

Chicken Little

Informal a person who spreads baseless or exaggerated reports of danger; alarmist

Etymology: after the chicken in a children's story who, after being struck by a falling object, warns that the sky is falling

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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