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
"Yes; he was as mad as a March hare, and in a strait-jacket at that."
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey
Whoever has a touch of madness to lend him sympathy with the March hare likes the bewildering days through which he scampers to vanish at the edge of April.
From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian
The Squire, or rather his bailiff, had bought him out of a drove; so he was, literally speaking, as wild as the hills, and as mad as a March hare.
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon
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