February 2010

ENGLISH IDIOM OF THE MONTH:
„Don‘t count your chickens before they are hatched“

 

MEANING

Do not think about the future before we reach it.

TRANSLATION

«Lobe den Tag nicht vor dem Abend»
(wörtlich: „Zähle Deine Hühner nicht, bevor sie geschlüpft sind“).

ORIGIN

Special Swiss edition of "The Milkmaid and her Pail" from Aesop