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.
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modifier Easily, smoothly: drove like a dream (1949+)
- Like a drowned rat
Also, wet as a drowned rat. Soaking wet and utterly bedraggled, as in When she came in out of the rain she looked like a drowned rat. This simile appeared in Latin nearly 2,000 years ago, and in English about the year 1500.
- Like a fish out of water
see: fish out of water
- Like a hog on ice
adverbial phrase independent, ungovernable; free but helpless Examples Don’t skitter around like a hog on ice. Word Origin possibly fr. the stone in the game of curling coming to rest
- Like a hole in the head
Related Terms need someone or something like a hole in the head