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"etymology_text": "Possibly from stories of Viking marauders said to have set their hair and beards on fire when running into battle in order to appear fanatical and fearsome.",
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"ref": "2009 March 31, Vanessa Ho, “Study: Seattle home for alcoholics saved taxpayers $4 million”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2017-09-22",
"text": "\"It was perceived that we were opening a party house where people could drink and run amok and generally set their hair on fire,\" said Bill Hobson, executive director of the Downtown Emergency Service Center.",
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"ref": "2012 April 5, Allen Garr, “Blaming Chinese for high house prices in Vancouver is racist”, in Vancouver Courier, Canada, retrieved 2017-09-22",
"text": "[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 can set your hair on fire and blame Chinese foreigners.",
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"ref": "2017 May 23, David Brooks, “Opinion: The Alienated Mind”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-09-22",
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"ref": "2017 September 19, Heather Mallick, “Trump sets his hair on fire at the UN”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 2017-09-22",
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"(idiomatic) To become wildly impassioned; to behave crazily."
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