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
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- like (Idiom)
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- Aristocracy (Quotes About)
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