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lose one's bottle
vs
run around like a headless chicken
lose one's bottle
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, bottle.
To lose courage and determination.
run around like a headless chicken
How often have the words
lose one's bottle
and
run around like a headless chicken
occurred in a corpus of books?
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