set one's hair on fire

Meaning: (idiomatic)To become wildlyimpassioned; to behavecrazily.2009March 31, Vanessa Ho, “Study: Seattle home for alcoholics saved taxpayers $4 million”, inSeattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 22 Sept 2017:"It was perceived that we were opening a party house where people could drink and run amok and generallyset their hair on fire," said Bill Hobson, executive director of the Downtown Emergency Service Center.2012April 5, Allen Garr, “Blaming Chinese for high house prices in Vancouver is racist”, inVancouver Courier, Canada, retrieved 22 Sept 2017:[T]he problem is the extreme shortage of affordable housing. You can do as the city has decided to do, which is set up a task force to deal with affordable housing. . . . Or you canset your hair on fireand blame Chinese foreigners.2017May 23,David Brooks, “Opinion: The Alienated Mind”, inNew York Times, retrieved 22 Sept 2017:As the impeachment investigation proceeds, it’ll be important for us Trump critics to notset our hair on fireevery day, to evaluate the evidence as if it were against a president we ourselves voted for.2017September 19,Heather Mallick, “Trumpsets his hair on fireat the UN”, inThe Star, Canada, retrieved 22 Sept 2017:It is difficult to sum up the speech, despite having taken notes while watching on three screens, because the whammos, the bone chips and viscera, came at us faster than they could be wiped away.

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