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
"Yes; he was as mad as a March hare, and in a strait-jacket at that."
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
But as for Mr. John Coulter being their giver—why, you are mad as a March hare to think it for a moment.
From Carl and the Cotton Gin by Sara Ware Bassett
"The man is mad!" he gasped, "mad as a March hare!"
From First Person Paramount by Ambrose Pratt
But to this day he is as mad as a March hare if an allusion is made in his presence to any kind of studs whatsoever.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
