to carry on in a disorganised manner
a state of panic where there is a lot of running around which isn’t effective
running around without direction or aimlessly
doing a lot of things at the same time without planning or purpose
like a headless chicken
like a chicken with its head cut off
After failing to take her equipment to the lab, Lizzie ran around like a headless chicken while trying to conduct her experiment.
He ran around like a headless chicken after he missed his flight to the US.
It is important to get everything organised for the meeting today so that we don’t end up running around like headless chickens.
He is such a disorganised fellow, always running around like a headless chicken before very major presentation.
There is no origin for this idiom
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