Mother Carey's chickens

A form of Mother Carey's chicken — The storm petrel.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Mother Carey's chicken

    The fine arts, like Mother Carey's chickens, appear in stormy weather.

    1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 315
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