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

"Yes; he was as mad as a March hare, and in a strait-jacket at that."

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey

You are as mad as a March hare, sir!

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George

The Squire, or rather his bailiff, had bought him out of a drove; so he was, literally speaking, as wild as the hills, and as mad as a March hare.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

"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