a chicken in every pot

Meaning

Noun

• general welfare or prosperity

Origin

• First stated by Henry IV of France as, "I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday," and later associated with United States president Herbert Hoover's 1928 campaign as part of an advertisement, placed by a local committee. Because of the advertisement, the phrase is often mistakenly attributed to Hoover, although he never made any such statement and had no part in the making of the ad.