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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

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

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

A March hare isn’t in it with you.

From Sir Hilton's Sin by Fenn, George Manville

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