Chicken Little
Example Sentences
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"We need to take these glaciers seriously without sounding like Chicken Little," Joughin said in an email.
From Fox News
“We need to take these glaciers seriously without sounding like Chicken Little,” Joughin said in an email.
From Seattle Times
Wheeler counsels: “Clear heads are needed to separate what is only hypothetical possibility based on worst-case assumptions” — the FAA’s Chicken Little scenario — “from what is highly probable based on real-world use.”
From Washington Post
Mr. Levine was viewed by many — even by progressive members of his own party — as a kind of Chicken Little, anticipating and fearing the worst.
From Washington Post
“We don’t want to cause a sky-is-falling, ‘Chicken Little’ syndrome,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.