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like a chicken with its head cut off
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.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
SamİR | | - | Azerbaijani |
Aybek | | - | Kyrgyz, Kazakh |
Meta | | ME-tah (German) | German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |
Brion | | BRIE-ən | English |
Enitan | | - | Western African, Yoruba |
Agassi | | ['ægəsi] | |