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March hare

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noun

  1. a hare during its breeding season in March, noted for its wild and excitable behaviour (esp in the phrase mad as a March hare )

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I tell you, sir, he's as crazy as a March hare.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

In short, no hatter or March hare was ever so entirely mad and off his head and beside himself.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada

I always have said that you are as mad as the March hare in 'Alice' and now I am sure of it.

From Windyridge by Riley, W.

The neighbours thought the vicar was as mad as a March hare on this one point.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard

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