like a headless chicken

(British) also like a chicken with its head cut off (American)

if you do something like a headless chicken, you do it very quickly and without thinking carefully about what you are doing (usually in continuous tenses) I've got so much work to do - I've been running around like a headless chicken all week. He was racing around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to do the work of two people.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Maui	-	Hawaiian, Polynesian Mythology
Kotone	ko-to-ne	Japanese
Malvina	[mæl'vi:nə]
Purcell	['pə:sl]
Yiannis	-	Greek
Kirke	-	Greek Mythology