📚 proverb • entry_id 34380
don't count your chickens before they're hatched
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hasta el rabo, todo es toro • no cantes victoria • no echar las campanas al vuelo • no vendas la piel del oso antes de cazarlo
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, [...]
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