POLL: Popular Poultry Metaphors

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Which of these did you learn to use growing up as a child in your family?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
goose bumps	18
chicken skin	2
another poultry-based phrase	2
goose flesh	0
another non-poultry-based phrase	0
the hell you say	0

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link

"goose bumps" was my family's preference.

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link

we were more of a Point Horror household, but each to their own

― Number None, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link

why is there a lack of rooster representation

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link

goose pimples

― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link

^ UK version

― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link

Please clap.

― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link

We called it cold turkey

― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link

Quail scales

― Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link

Chook plooks

― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 1 December 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link

chook plooks?

― macropuente (map), Saturday, 1 December 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link

i hoped this was about all chicken-related metaphors and would like to write in "flew the coop"

― macropuente (map), Saturday, 1 December 2018 02:36 (five years ago) link

"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched."

― I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Saturday, 1 December 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link

my parents literally said 'poultry-based phrase'

― j., Saturday, 1 December 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 2 December 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link

this is what it sounds like
when hens fap

― rip van wanko, Sunday, 2 December 2018 02:26 (five years ago) link

i hoped this was about all chicken-related metaphors and would like to write in "flew the coop"
― macropuente (map)

Same. Was going to vote “flapping around like a headless chicken”

― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 2 December 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link

uh, it's "running around"

― Number None, Monday, 3 December 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link

chook plooks?

Chook
noun informal•Australian/NZ
noun: chook; plural noun: chooks; noun: chookie; plural noun: chookies
1. a chicken or fowl.

Plook
noun Scottish
noun: plook; plural noun: plooks; noun: pluke; plural noun: plukes
a spot or pimple.

I just made it up btw.

― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Monday, 3 December 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link

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