Bob Hayden asks:
Now, does anyone know of a reference where one could look up phrases?
For example, "like a chicken with its head cut off".
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One reference for idiomatic expressions is Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase
and Fable, first published in 1870 and still in print. Unfortunately it
doesn't seem to have the chicken reference as such, though under the
entry for "head" it gives a related expression.
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