英语词汇“mad hatter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mad hatter

noun

A highly eccentric or crazy character (frequently in mad hatter's tea party).

Origin

Early 20th century; earliest use found in The Westminster Gazette. After the name of the eccentric host at the ‘mad tea-party’ in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; in this, and in the phrase mad as a hatter, the allusion is to the effects of mercury poisoning sometimes formerly suffered by hat-makers as a result of the use of mercurous nitrate in the manufacture of felt hats.

单词	mad hatter
释义	mad hatter noun A highly eccentric or crazy character (frequently in mad hatter's tea party). Origin Early 20th century; earliest use found in The Westminster Gazette. After the name of the eccentric host at the ‘mad tea-party’ in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; in this, and in the phrase mad as a hatter, the allusion is to the effects of mercury poisoning sometimes formerly suffered by hat-makers as a result of the use of mercurous nitrate in the manufacture of felt hats.
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