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

"The man is mad!" he gasped, "mad as a March hare!"

From First Person Paramount by Pratt, Ambrose

"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

Why, the man is as mad as a March hare.

From A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story by Mays, D.L.

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