| 单词 | running around like a chicken with its head cut off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrunning around like a chicken with its head cut off (also like a chicken with no head) P5. running around like a chicken with its head cut off (also like a chicken with no head) and variants: used to indicate frantic, unthinking, and often futile activity; = running around like a headless chicken at headless chicken n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and violently > rush around scour1297 startlec1300 reelc1400 rammisha1540 gad1552 ramp1599 fling1620 to run rounda1623 rampage1791 to run around1822 to rip and tear1846 hella1864 running around like a chicken with its head cut off (also like a chicken with no head)1887 to haul ass1918 tear-arse1942 1887 N.Y. Times 9 Aug. 1/1 Some fulfillment came to this prophecy when one day the stuff went ricochetting around like a Spring chicken with its head cut off. 1911 Z. Grey Young Pitcher ix. 96 Ken played or essayed to play right field for a while, but he ran around like a chicken with its head off, as a Travers player expressed it. 1943 B. Bandel Let. 16 May in S. J. Bugbee Officer & Lady (2004) 103 I have been running around like a chicken with its head off, but I feel that I have got something done. 2001 Kitesurf Mag. Sept. 70 I was running around like a chicken with no head trying to get all my ‘crap’ together and get on the water. < as lemmas |
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