单词 | (as) mad as a hatter |
释义 | (as) mad as a hatter informal Completely insane; crazy: he’s indisputably a genius, but he’s also mad as a hatter...
Popularized with reference to Lewis Carroll's character the Hatter in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), although the phrase was first recorded in the 1820s; the allusion is to the effects of mercury poisoning from the former use of mercurous nitrate in the manufacture of felt hats See parent entry: mad |
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