don't count your chickens before they're hatched saying1 •One should not depend upon a favorable (and typically overoptimistic) outcome to one's plans until it is certain to occur.[...] Make Fools believe in their fore-seeing / Of things before they are in Being; / To swallow Gudgeons ere th' are catch'd, / And count their Chickens ere th' are hatch'd, [...] — 1663
