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like a chicken with its head cut off
Idioms and Phrases
In a frenzied manner, distractedly, crazily. For example, She ran around the station looking for her lost bag like a chicken with its head cut off . This graphic simile alludes to the fact that the body of a chicken whose head has been cut off sometimes totters about crazily before succumbing.Example Sentences
And then Art had me鈥攅ager, enthusiastic, willing to help but with energy more like a chicken with its head cut off.
鈥淥ur shape is terrible. We鈥檙e not connected from front to back. 鈥 We have to fight, but we have to work hard and we have to be smart about how we go about it. We can鈥檛 just run around like a chicken with its head cut off.鈥
鈥淲e were running around like a chicken with its head cut off, throwing stuff into the car. Then we say, 鈥極kay, that鈥檚 it 鈥 we got to go.鈥
If the justices strike the law, Bagley said, "I honestly think the likeliest outcome is that Congress runs around like a chicken with its head cut off, doesn't come to a deal, and we're back to where we were before 2010," when the ACA passed.
My mother would say they acting like a chicken with its head cut off.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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