nobody here but us chickens

1) a sarcastic answer implying "who else would be here?" or "just the regular crowd"

2) could be used to hide someone there who should not be

source: originally from a fable involving a chicken thief (possibly a fox) hiding in the hen house and answering the farmer's question of who's making all the noise.

Also made popular by a 40's song of the same name by Louis Jordan.

Dad (coming home from work): Anybody home?
Older Daughter (in bedroom): Nobody here but us chickens! (implying herself and her sister, but is actually herself and her boyfriend, who should have gone home already)

by copperdragon December 2, 2011

chickened out

afraid to do something.

i was going to ask her for a date, but at the last minute i chickened out.

by shelaz March 2, 2008

It's chickens

A way of expressing that the weather is cold.

It's chickens out here today, Mave.

by AW94 October 23, 2010

whippin chickens

The act of turning bricks of cocaine into crack to be sold on the street

"Niggas in the kitchen whippin chickens, tryna get butter"
-Offset (Migos)

by $30,000 for a chicken March 3, 2016

I know my chickens

when someone knows a group of people really well like a mother knows her children

comes from an Italian phrase

"dude, im gonna put a snake in Izzy and JJ's lockers, it'll be HIlarious!"

"nah man, u shouldn't, i know my chickens, they'll flip out"

by SUF1318 June 19, 2009

flippin chickens

dealing or slinging coke or drugs

He is still flippin chickens on the corner

by irunwthsizzors November 5, 2008

the chickens are coming home to roost

An expression that means that a person is about to pay for their mistakes or bad deeds, similar to "what goes around comes around".

The chickens are coming home to roost, Bobby Boucher. You'll reap the fruit of your selfish ways. You're gonna lose all your fancy foosball games, and you're gonna fail your big exam, because school is THE DEVIL!

by Nick D April 3, 2004