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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

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

From First Person Paramount by Pratt, Ambrose

Yet, to see swift and enchanting changes of sky, lake, and woodland, go forth with the March hare and find with him, better than quiet, the earth astir.

From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian

Dotty, my dear, as the veriest March hare.

From An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

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