It has lived seven days, and gives every indication of continuing to enjoy life for a long time. The chicken is now in this city, and was visited by a number of persons on Saturday and yesterday. It has already excited some attempts at humorous comment. But as the chicken in question so wonderfully escaped the fricassee, we are unable to see the point of the intended joke.
These are the earliest occurrences of the phrase like a headless chicken that I have found, in chronological order:. Friends and calumniators alike are assiduous in picking up incidents which they connect with him, and detail as biographic facts. They suggest that he commenced using the axe when he was very young. He has used it with wonderful effect ever since. He has wielded it with such a stalwart arm that he has chopped off the head of rebellion, and the animal is now jerking blindly around like a headless chicken in its last agonies.
Diplomatic Billy, who seems to have been possessed of a devil instigating him to purchase for the United States all the waste places and shaky islands outlying, and not worth much, has given us a complication in that of the proposed purchase of the Danish Islands.
Poor Henry Winter Davis, the noblest spirit of them all, anticipated this very question, and insisted upon it that as the appropriations for the purchase money had to be voted for by the House, the House had a right to be consulted in the purchase.
I would so headless chicken that girl! I love you so much I would headless chicken you. Headless Chicken. A complex sexual act involving five men and 1 woman. The woman takes one cock in her mouth, one in the pussy and one in her ass, whilst the remaining lucky two guys fuck her armpits.
He is such a disorganised fellow, always running around like a headless chicken before very major presentation. Origin This idiom originates from as early as the 14 th century in England when chickens were popularly killed by chopping off their heads with an axe. Idiom of the Day drop like flies Meaning: many people falling ill or dying around the same time Example: It was flu season and people in our office were dropping like flies.
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