like a chicken with its head cut off

1. 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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• agitated 
• anxious 
• concerned 
• confused 
• crazy 
• distressed 
• frantic 
• hysterical 
• mad 
• perturbed 
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