OXFORD 9000
📚 prep_phrase • entry_id 54887

like a chicken with its head cut off

Meanings (ES + gloss)
como pollo sin cabeza
In a frantic, disorganized manner.
His idea of it was that he had been making a fool of himself, running around like a chicken with its head cut off—such was the simile that occurred to him.
Ken played or essayed to play right field for a while, but he ran around like a chicken with its head off.
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