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Like a chicken with its head cut off
Meaning in a frenzied manner. Poultry twitch and sometimes run around after decapitation.

When poultry is decapitated, they begin to twitch and may sometimes begin to run around, that is how this idiom which means 'in a frenzy' comes from.











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