Idioms

cricket on the hearth

a cricket on the hearth

A sign of good health and good fortune. I'm putting this cricket statuette here because a cricket on the hearth is supposed to bring good luck. No, don't kill it! A cricket on the hearth is a good thing! No, thank you, I don't want a picture of a cricket near my fireplace—and don't start with that "cricket on the hearth" stuff.
See also: cricket, hearth, on
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cricket on the hearth

A symbol of good luck and health. A cricket on the hearth has been a sign of household luck for millennia and in many cultures. Crickets were widely considered to bring good fortune as well as a kind of companionship. Representations of a cricket have long been included as a fireplace decoration. The expression “to find a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing of all” comes from Charles Dickens's novella, Cricket on the Hearth.
See also: cricket, hearth, on
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To have a Cricket on the Hearth, is the luckiest thing in all the world!'
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Who wrote A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth? 5.
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Enw un o nofelau Nadolig Charles Dickens ydi "The cricket on the hearth".
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Cricket on the Hearth, The (in full The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home) Short tale written by Dickens, Charles (John Huffam) as a Christmas book for 1845 but published in 1846.
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In the happy home of John Peerybingle and his wife Dot, the cricket on the hearth chirps when all is well and is silent when unhappiness pervades.
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