begin with the chucky
verbEtymology
From a story in which a frugal mother recalls how she used to eat cheap foods such as porridge before becoming wealthy enough to afford chucky (“chicken”).
Definitions
To live beyond one's means.
- Half the world now begins with the 'chucky'.
- Recollect and apply the general principle involved in the lament over "Andrew's imprudence," and don't "begin with the chucky"!
- Our son Andrew has now got a shop and a wife too. He is trying his hand both at business and at housekeeping : but. oh, sir ! he has made an awfu' mistake : he has begun with the chucky !
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA