mad as a March hare
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In the Courier-Journal Colonel Watterson said flatly that Theodore was "as mad as a March hare," suggested that his family ought to lock him up before he did more harm.
From Time Magazine Archive
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You are as mad as a March hare, sir!
From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George
The World obligingly sends what is required to a Urine-doctor, who instantly pronounces that "the World is as mad as a March hare!"
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
The man's as mad as a March hare now.
From The Lady of the Ice A Novel by De Mille, James
Lafayette was mad as a March hare at their fighting without him.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams