like a chicken with its head cut off, (run about)

Behave distractedly and crazily. This graphic simile apparently is based on barnyard experience: the body of a decapitated chicken sometimes continues to totter about crazily for a time following the dirty deed.

See also: chicken, cut, head, like

The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer

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like a house afire/on fire
red flag/rag to a bull, like a
muse
muse over
muse over (someone or something)
take to it like a duck to water, to
bellow like a (wounded) bull, to
live like a prince, to
slow as (slower than) molasses (in January)
quake/shake like a leaf, to

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释义	like a chicken with its head cut off, (run about) like a chicken with its head cut off, (run about) Behave distractedly and crazily. This graphic simile apparently is based on barnyard experience: the body of a decapitated chicken sometimes continues to totter about crazily for a time following the dirty deed. See also: chicken, cut, head, like The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: like a house afire/on fire red flag/rag to a bull, like a muse muse over muse over (someone or something) take to it like a duck to water, to bellow like a (wounded) bull, to live like a prince, to slow as (slower than) molasses (in January) quake/shake like a leaf, to
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