like a chicken with the pip

Meaning: (dated,idiomatic)In aweakened,confused, orsicklymanner.1899,Frank Norris, chapter 4, inBlix:Then Condy promptly got the hiccoughs from drinking his tea too fast, and fretted up and down the roomlike a chicken with the pip.1907,Stewart Edward White, chapter 15, inArizona Nights:He seemed plumb possessed of gloom, and moped aroundlike a chicken with the pip.1914,Peter B. Kyne, chapter 6, inThe Long Chance:Then, after two prodigious parting kicks, accurately gauged and delivered, the gambler crossed over to the hotel, leaving the garrulous one to pick himself out of the dust, gaspinglike a chicken with the pip.

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