March hare
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
A March hare isn’t in it with you.
From Sir Hilton's Sin by Fenn, George Manville
Heywood seems to allude to a similar notion when he says: “As mad as a March hare: where madness compares, Are not midsummer hares as mad as March hares?”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
He’s as mad as a March hare and he ought to be in school.”
From The Girl From His Town by Vorst, Marie Van
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