run around like a chicken with its head cut off vs run around like a headless chicken

run around like a chicken with its head cut off

verb

To act in a haphazard or aimless way; to act frantically or without control.

run around like a headless chicken

How often have the words run around like a chicken with its head cut off and run around like a headless chicken occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )