Henny Penny
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Henny Penny (plural Henny Pennies)
- One who panics at the slightest provocation.
- Synonym: Chicken Little
- 2006, Rebecca Knuth, Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction, Praegar Publishers, published 2006, →ISBN, page 209:
- On April 11, in a tense news conference during a period when the looting dominated the news, Rumsfeld dismissed the media by calling them “Henny Pennies,” a reference to a children's tale in which the main character runs around, declaring that the sky is falling.
Further reading
[edit]- Henny Penny on Wikipedia.Wikipedia