Circumlocution?

Question:who knows the proverb?
*desist from enumerating your foul prior ro their emergence from the shell..

1st in with right answer gots the points.

Answers:
It should be Fowl

"Don;t count your chickens before they hatch"
circumlocution (sur-kuhm-loh-kyooh-shuhn)

Roundabout speech or writing: “The driveway was not unlike that military training device known as an obstacle course” is a circumlocution for “The driveway resembled an obstacle course.” Circumlocution comes from Latin words meaning “speaking around.”

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