Headless chicken

家長並非鐵人，剛開學或許未適應照顧子女返學放學、執書包、簽收學校通告、準備營養午餐等各樣事情，忙得像無頭蒼蠅。中文用「無頭蒼蠅」形容人手忙腳亂，英文則用headless chicken，說run around like a headless chicken，指「非常忙碌地做很多事情，但不是很有效率、欠仔細思考」，常用進行式（continuous tense）。例句：I have too much work to do this week and have been running around like a headless chicken.（今個星期我有太多工作，一直像無頭蒼蠅般跑來跑去。）

至於中文「雞先定蛋先」，英文的說法是一樣的：Which came first, the chicken or the egg？又或a chicken-and-egg situation/problem，指「因果難分的狀況/問題」。例句：It's a chicken-and-egg problem - I'm not sure if I was bad at Maths so I wasn't interested in it, or not interested in it therefore bad at it.（這是個「雞先定蛋先」的問題：我不肯定我數學差所以不感興趣，還是無興趣所以差。）