<span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">pip</span> (dated, idiomatic) In <span class="searchmatch">a</span> weakened, confused, or sickly manner. 1899, Frank Norris, chapter 4, in Blix: Then Condy promptly...
<span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> its head off, <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> no head, <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> headless <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span>, <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> headless chook <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> its head cut off (informal)...
Colin Robinson. You're giving me <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">pip</span>.” <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">pip</span> respiratory disease in birds Apparently representing <span class="searchmatch">a</span> shortened form of pippin, from...
head off <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> no head <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span> <span class="searchmatch">with</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">pip</span> <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> headless <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span> Maryland <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span> Mother Carey's <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span> mountain <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span> Nashville...
January 26, <span class="searchmatch">Pip</span> Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, in RAIL, number 988, page 60: As I say, it was <span class="searchmatch">a</span> very hot day, and I found that <span class="searchmatch">the</span> air-con...
→OCLC: [T]he <span class="searchmatch">Chicken</span> had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured <span class="searchmatch">a</span> complication...
consisting of <span class="searchmatch">the</span> seed and <span class="searchmatch">a</span> hard endocarp layer. Synonyms: pit, seed pit; (botany) pyrena, pyrene Hyponyms: cherry pit, peach pit Near-synonym: <span class="searchmatch">pip</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> peach stone...
specifically from <span class="searchmatch">the</span> simile <span class="searchmatch">like</span> (or mad as) <span class="searchmatch">a</span> bear <span class="searchmatch">with</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> sore head. sorehead (countable and uncountable, plural soreheads) <span class="searchmatch">A</span> person who has <span class="searchmatch">a</span> tendency to...
That morning, I saw that <span class="searchmatch">a</span> spot had come up on my chin. I think she's got <span class="searchmatch">chicken</span> pox; she's covered in spots. <span class="searchmatch">A</span> symbol on <span class="searchmatch">a</span> playing card, domino, die...
dollop by owght.'] 1907, Ian Hay [pseudonym; John Hay Beith], “<span class="searchmatch">The</span> Philanthropists”, in “<span class="searchmatch">Pip</span>”: <span class="searchmatch">A</span> Romance of Youth, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons...