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Chicken Little

noun as in alarmist

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noun as in doomsayer

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“I’m concerned that people will think it was the Chicken Little, you know, ‘Y’all said the sky was falling, and now nothing’s happened,’” she said in a phone interview.

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“This ‘Chicken Little’ stuff has got to end.

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“President Biden’s entire plan rested on the Chicken Little tactic of persuading Americans that the Internet would break in the absence of these so-called ‘net neutrality’ regulations,” Carr said in a statement.

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So why the “Chicken Little” song about America’s declining might?

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"We need to take these glaciers seriously without sounding like Chicken Little," Joughin said in an email.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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