| 单词 | running around like a headless chicken |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrunning around like a headless chicken 1. In similative phrases denoting frantic, unthinking, and often futile activity, esp. in running around like a headless chicken and variants. ΚΠ 1570 T. North tr. A. F. Doni Morall Philos. i. f. 18 This yong man flight with feare..ranne round about like a headlesse flie.] 1870 Christian Union 15 Jan. 35/2 The Church is without a head. It flounders about like a headless chicken. 1905 R. W. Chambers Reckoning xi. 274 Like a headless chicken he tumbles about New York, seeing, hearing nothing. 1966 R. L. Gale Barron's Simplified Approach to Red Badge of Courage 53 He soon is terrified by the sudden attack and, seeing the others do the same, throws away his rifle and runs like a rabbit, a headless chicken, a blind man. 2010 Daily Tel. 9 Mar. 17/3 But all I saw was her running around like a headless chicken, greeting patients briefly. < as lemmas |
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