March hare

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noun

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

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Words nearby March hare

Marches, marchesa, marchese, Marcheshvan, March fly, March hare, marching girl, marching orders, marching orders, get one's, marchioness, marchland

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How to use March hare in a sentence

The bank had a hundred dollars less to the credit of the March Hare than the books said it should have.
Paul and the Printing Press|Sara Ware Bassett
Older persons who had no children turned in applications for the March Hare.
Paul and the Printing Press|Sara Ware Bassett
He is mad as a March-hare himself, by all accounts; but everybody likes him.
Perlycross|R. D. Blackmore
The Oracle and the over-production men will totally supplant the March-hare.
Rural Rides|William Cobbett

We gave her a dinner yesterday at the March Hare by way of farewell.
Lady Baltimore|Owen Wister