"like a scalded dog" meaning in English

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          "text": "Shoot, Sniffer jerked away and took off like a scalded dog.",
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          "ref": "2012, Jean Larremore, Self-Portrait of a Texas Cowboy: Ass Over Teakettle, page 54:",
          "text": "More often, he would buck like a scalded dog. If I could keep him circling in one direction, I could ride him. If I ever turned his head loose, he'd generally pile drive me again and disappear out from under me.",
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        "(simile) With great rapidity."
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          "word": "like a scalded cat"
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          "sense": "with great rapidity",
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  "word": "like a scalded dog"
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