crazy about, be

Idioms and Phrases

Also, be mad about . Be immoderately fond of or infatuated with, as in I'm crazy about lobster , or George is mad about his new saxophone . The first expression dates from the early 1900s. The second, with mad , is much older; Shakespeare had it as mad for in All's Well That Ends Well (5:3): “madde for her”; and mad about was common by the mid-1700s.

Example Sentences

The oil company may not be crazy about it.

From Washington Times

Bill figures his uncle wouldn’t be crazy about these latest abstracts either, but he doesn’t care.

From Washington Post

“No one’s crazy about it. You shouldn’t be crazy about it. But you should give people the choice,” said Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethicist who has advised the Biden administration on coronavirus and attended a White House briefing this week on monkeypox.

From Washington Post

‘Course we both sorry. Us can’t afford to quarrel. And besides, once we get you settled on the farm you going to like it. They got the prettiest vegetable garden I ever seen. Make my mouth slobber to think about it. And chickens and two breed sows and eighteen peach trees. You just going to be crazy about it there. I sure do wish it was me could get a chance to go.’

From Literature

Church is aware that the Food and Drug Administration, among other regulatory bodies, may not be crazy about weird new therapies that address what we customarily take to be a natural process.

From The New Yorker

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