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.
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Mr. Gladstone must be as mad as a March hare.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
We say he is mad as a March hare.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack
Why, he's as mad as a March hare.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
"The man I am sure is as mad as a March hare; let us descend and see if he is any where secreted in the small apartment below."
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry