buck fever
Example Sentences
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He writes, “ … it’s not that I fear buck fever, it’s that I can’t seem to work up a decent feeling of enmity toward a deer.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023
Don’t let buck fever cause you to freeze up during the Slate News Quiz.
From Slate • Jul. 23, 2021
The War Department increased the general buck fever by asking editors and publishers not to bannerize bombing raids, asking columnists to be casual.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he found one, instead of aiming and shooting, he got a classic case of buck fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, I will tell you of another case of buck fever from a cause entirely different from that just related.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel
