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
Mr. Gladstone must be as mad as a March hare.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley
He’s the man we picked up mad as a March hare, with twenty thousand dollars in banknotes in his pockets.”
From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Allen Chapman
Lafayette was mad as a March hare at their fighting without him.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
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
