hair-on-fire
- adjective
- Informal
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con mucha urgencia
- If you are running around with your hair on fire, just putting out one fire after the other, it just doesn't work.
If you are running around with your hair on fire, just putting out one fire after the other, it just doesn't work.
- If you are running around with your hair on fire, just putting out one fire after the other, it just doesn't work.
- We are in a hair on fire moment when it comes to national security and our place in the world.
Examples
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When the deadline was moved up, the whole team was working with their hair-on-fire to finish the project on time.
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During the last-minute preparations for the event, she was running around with her hair-on-fire, trying to avoid any mistakes.
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He's been told you come in and if your hair's on fire for the rest of his life, he will remember that moment.
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Phaeton, with his hair on fire, fell headlong like a shooting star, which marks the heavens with its brightness as it falls.
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The hair-on-fire brigade will feverishly prepare a replacement; meanwhile, cleanup of the mess she helped create goes forward.
Blog text (32) -
The manager's hair-on-fire style kept everyone energized and focused during the hectic launch period.
Synonyms
93
3.9
Very worried and acting quickly in a wild, uncontrolled way
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6.5
Showing very strong excitement and uncontrolled actions
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7.6
Very fast and energetic in a wild, uncontrolled way
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7.4
To do something with great energy and effort
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5.6
A time when excitement or tension is very high
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7.6
Act with very strong, urgent energy and full focus
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9.9
Very nervous and unable to stay still because of worry or excitement
Being very excited and unable to stay calm
Antonyms
How Urgent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hair-on-fire comes from the vivid picture of someone's hair actually 'on fire', an image people use to show 'extreme urgency' or panic. So if you call a person or a plan hair-on-fire, you mean they are moving very fast and frantically to deal with a big problem.