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run around with one's hair on fire

run around with one's hair on fire is the alternative form of set one's hair on fire.

Meaning of set one's hair on fire

Verb

set one's hair on fire (third-person singular simple present sets one's hair on fire, present participle setting one's hair on fire, simple past and past participle set one's hair on fire)

  1. (idiomatic) To become wildly impassioned; to behave crazily.
    • "It was perceived that we were opening a party house where people could drink and run amok and generally set their hair on fire," said Bill Hobson, executive director of the Downtown Emergency Service Center.2009 March 31, Vanessa Ho, “Study: Seattle home for alcoholics saved taxpayers $4 million”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 22 Sep 2017
    Synonyms:
    freak out, lose it

Forms of run around with one's hair on fire

third-person singular presentruns around with one's hair on fire
present participlerunning around with one's hair on fire
pastran around with one's hair on fire
past participlerun around with one's hair on fire

Questions about run around with one's hair on fire

What is run around with one's hair on fire the alternative form of?
Run around with one's hair on fire is the alternative form of set one's hair on fire.

Words near run around with one's hair on fire in the dictionary

  1. run around
  2. run around after
  3. run around in circles
  4. run around like a chicken with its head cut off
  5. run around with
  6. run around with one's hair on fire
  7. run arounds
  8. run at
  9. run at the mouth
  10. run away
  11. run away from

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