The children were running helter-skelter.
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Helter-skelter
/ˌhɛltɚˈskɛltɚ/
Synonyms for "helter-skelter" (130 found)
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every which way
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The cubs take little notice of you at first; but after a time they suddenly stop playing, stare hard at you for half a minute, then bolt off helter-skelter into the forest of waving green wheat.
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The winds knocked huge trees helter-skelter all over my garden.
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But the butterflies were dead. A whiff of rotten eggs had vanquished the pale clouded yellows which came pelting across the orchard and up Dods Hill and away on to the moor, now lost behind a furze bush, then off again helter-skelter in a broiling sun.
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