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Don't count your chickens.
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toranutanukinokawazanyou
expression
  1. counting one's chickens before they've hatched; counting raccoon dog skins before they have been caught
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toru

Classical (nu) Present Indicative Negative Form

toranu
godan verb, transitive verb
  1. to take; to catch; to capture
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tanuki
noun
  1. tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon dog
  2. sly dog; sly old fox; sly fox; cunning devil; craftiness; sly person; someone who makes evil plans without ever breaking their poker face
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no
particle
  1. indicates possessive (occasionally ん, orig. written 乃 or 之)
  2. nominalizes verbs and adjectives
  3. substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases
  4. (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion (often ん)
  5. (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis
  6. (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
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kawazanyou
noun
  1. over-optimistic calculation; counting one's chickens before they're hatched
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