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Like a chicken with its head cut off.
To act in a frenzied manner.
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Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom, and happiness.
We see live chickens getting their heads cut off and shoved into gruesome pieces of machinery.
"Brown's men split open heads, cut off arms," says tonight's narrator.
She is like a snake with seven heads: cut off six and she still has one left to bite you".
"Two tribal elders were taken from their homes and had their heads cut off," said a shopkeeper, Jawad Ahmed Ali.
In July 1790 he declared to his readers: Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom, and happiness.
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Their head cut off.
Before having your head cut off.
"Decapitated" means "with the head cut off," so it can't really modify "heads".
He's a chicken running around... ...... "... with his head cut off," John Paul finished, smiling.
She had her head cut off, to the cheers of the sans-culottes.
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