like a chicken with its head cut off

With great haste and in a careless or senseless manner. Instead of running around like a chicken with its head cut off, make a list of items you need to finish and then work on them in order.

like a chicken with its head cut off

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.

like a chicken with its head cut off

In a frenzy. Chickens have been known to twitch and even stagger around for several minutes after being decapitated, the result of a reflexive response. A person in the throes of extreme emotional agitation exhibits the same sort of fowl play.

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释义	like a chicken with its head cut off like a chicken with its head cut off With great haste and in a careless or senseless manner. Instead of running around like a chicken with its head cut off, make a list of items you need to finish and then work on them in order. See also: chicken, cut, head, like, off Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. like a chicken with its head cut off 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. See also: chicken, cut, head, like, off The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. like a chicken with its head cut off In a frenzy. Chickens have been known to twitch and even stagger around for several minutes after being decapitated, the result of a reflexive response. A person in the throes of extreme emotional agitation exhibits the same sort of fowl play. See also: chicken, cut, head, like, off Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price See also: like a headless chicken be running around like a headless chicken headless run about like a headless chicken running about like a headless chicken be in great haste haste crack on rush off hurry off References in periodicals archive Hayes was chatting up the ladies and Jeremy was running around like a chicken with its head cut off, trying to videotape all the action. RDS Tough Guy Tour II: The Court Date
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