Mother Carey's chickens
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Mother Carey's chickens
- plural of Mother Carey's chicken
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 315:
- The fine arts, like Mother Carey's chickens, appear in stormy weather.