run around with one's hair on fire

English

Verb

run around with one's hair on fire

  1. Alternative form of set one's hair on fire
    • 2004 June 4, Julian Borger, "Farewell to the fall guy blamed for terror blunders," Guardian (UK) (retrieved 22 Sept 2017):
      By early 2001, when the Bush administration took office, Mr Tenet was "running around with his hair on fire", in the words of Richard Clarke, a former White House counter-terrorist tsar, warning senior officials about an impending al-Qaida attack.
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