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.
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"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
We say he is mad as a March hare.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
Poor fellow! as mad as a March hare, but a man of education and with an infinite fund of sympathy for humanity.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
Why, you are mad as a March hare, Miss Ralston.
From The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold by Margaret Vandercook