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
Oh! the man's as mad as a March hare!
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
“You’ve just been as mad as a March hare, that’s all!”
From Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
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 Gordon Stables
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