run around with one's hair on fire

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English

Verb

run around with one's hair on fire (third-person singular simple present runs around with one's hair on fire, present participle running around with one's hair on fire, simple past ran around with one's hair on fire, past participle 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”, in 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.