Chicken Little

Example Sentences

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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.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2025

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

From Fox News • Feb. 2, 2022

“I know so much about what’s happening in that state that I am like Chicken Little, running around going, ‘Everyone get out, but everyone stay because it’s also a great state.’

From Slate • Jul. 26, 2021

But the debate is personified in the book by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, neither of whom are AI researchers, with Musk sounding the alarm while Zuckerberg dismisses those fears as Chicken Little hysterics.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2021

Problem was, my inner voice resembled Chicken Little: it was screaming that I was about to die, but it did that almost every time I laced up my climbing boots.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer