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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

Farewell, Laura, I am your poor old mad March hare Mamma.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott

The low, eerie music caught my attention and awakened my imagination, in another second I was as mad as a March hare.

From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris

Wasn't he as mad as a March hare.

From Daisy the autobiography of a cat by Miranda Eliot Swan

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