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Chicken Little

Chick·en Lit·tle (plural Chick·en Lit·tles)


noun 
Definition:
 
alarmist: an alarmist who warns of imaginary dangers
We won't get anywhere if we listen to the Chicken Littles among us.

[After a fictional hen that was hit on the head by an acorn and said the sky was falling]
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