"hair-on-fire" meaning in English

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          "text": "Almost no singer in rock enunciates better, and he used that skill to make noise: teeth-and-tongue clucking, gut-punch bellows, hair-on-fire shrieking.",
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        "(idiomatic) Impassioned; wild; crazy; rage-filled; frantic."
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          "word": "set one's hair on fire"
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