run around like a headless chicken
rush around like a headless chicken
run round like a headless chicken

Run around like a headless chicken, get breathless and fried.

"If the roof fell in on us now," he overheard someone remark, rather smugly, "Earth would start running around like a headless chicken."

They've just taken on their first marketing manager, who "is running around like a headless chicken," says Williams, "with 25 years' worth of stuff dumped on him".

If it's me,' said the form-fetcher, 'I think I'll just panic and run around like a headless chicken, if that's all right by you.'

Fred took up a fire-iron from the fender and struck the chap who was running around like a headless chicken a blistering blow to the skull.

Even though he is not running around like a headless chicken, like he was in the first series, he has to be more centred because there is a lot of pressure on him."

"And if you don't (insert thing that Jenny did that Benjy has to fix or clean up here), You'll be running around like a headless CHICKEN!"

What he has done is run around like a headless chicken changing his mind from one minute to the next & then posing a constitutional crisis moment one day, then retreat the next.

However, running around like a headless chicken, incessant crossing into the box, clenching fists/manic pointing/spot of clapping, and then an inevitable knockout through loosing a penalty shoot out is not a footballing identity.

Macca and Strach) was ineffective, Hodge ran around like a headless chicken trying to pull down every Crewe player he came near and White and Deane were not in the game.

He'd pretended to be not quite the miracle worker people told him he was, running around like a headless chicken indeed, and he'd even shocked quite a number of patrons by having some of the "warp plasma" blown in his face.

OK so people are grumbling at the moment about the players, some are doing well others are not, but having watch Deane miss goals and Hodge run around like a headless chicken every week is frustrating, but perhaps the media's failure to provide good, unbiased coverage of Leeds results in people moaning to the mailing list.