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run around with one's hair on fire en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of set one's hair on fire.
    • 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. 2004 June 4, Julian Borger, “Farewell to the fall guy blamed for terror blunders”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 22 Sep 2017:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
running around with one's hair on fire Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ran around with one's hair on fire Tense=Past lexicographic
runs around with one's hair on fire Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
run around with one's hair on fire Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic