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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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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Father," returned Mathurin, "he is as mad as a March hare at this time of year.

From Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field by Ren? Bazin

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 W. Riley

Dotty, my dear, as the veriest March hare.

From An Unknown Lover by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

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