mad as a March hare
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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
Nothing except Mrs. Luttrell's own delusion on the subject; nobody wanted it to be known that she was as mad as a March hare on the subject.
From Under False Pretences A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
He’s as mad as a March hare and he ought to be in school.”
From The Girl From His Town by Marie Van Vorst
The World obligingly sends what is required to a Urine-doctor, who instantly pronounces that "the World is as mad as a March hare!"
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
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 Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
