run around with one's hair on fire
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
40
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."