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

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 Disraeli, Isaac

A beautiful lake, or a sublime mountain, drives a young poet as mad as a March hare.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

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 Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

The low, eerie music caught my attention and awakened my imagination, in another second I was as mad as a March hare.

From Life on the Stage by Morris, Clara