单词 | like a chicken with its head cut off |
释义 | like a chicken with its head cut offSEE SYNONYMS FOR like a chicken with its head cut off ON THESAURUS.COM 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. Words nearby like a chicken with its head cut offlike, like a bat out of hell, like a bump on a log, like a cat on hot bricks, like a champ, like a chicken with its head cut off, like a drowned rat, like a fish out of water, like a house afire, like a lamb to the slaughter, like anything The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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