Alternative form of don't count your chickens before they're hatched

(rare) Synonym of close only counts in horseshoes

Alternative form of close only counts in horseshoes

Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction. / In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.

To contradict, oppose. / (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing. / To take action in response to; to respond. / (transitive, obsolete) To encounter.

One who counts. / A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator. / An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.

Something opposite or contrary to something else. / (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.

Contrary or opposing

(Britain, Ireland, colloquial) In an underhand way, sneakily; unofficially, particularly with regard to payment or tax avoidance.

Illicitly, against regulations, of goods kept under the serving counter in a shop to be unobtrusively passed to a customer who knows they are available for surreptitious sale (e.g. pornographic magazines in a newsagent).