| 单词 | go mad |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go (also †fall, run) mad Phrases P1. like mad: (literally) in the manner of one who is mad; (hence) furiously, with excessive violence or enthusiasm; now often (colloquial) in weakened sense, as an intensifier: greatly, to a high degree. Also †like any mad, †for mad. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > violently [phrase] > with excessive violence or enthusiasm for mada1375 like mada1375 like a bandit1943 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [phrase] > with fierce or furious violence as or like woodc1220 for woodc1275 wood1297 for mada1375 like mada1375 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely like mada1375 with a mischief1538 (as) — as anything1542 with a vengeance1568 with a siserary1607 (to be pleased) to a feathera1616 in (the) extremea1616 with the vengeance1693 to a degree1740 like hell1776 like the devil1791 like winky1830 like billy-o1885 (like) seven shades of ——1919 like a bandit1943 on wheels1943 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1761 Alisaundrine..mourned neiȝh for mad for meliors hire ladi. c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) 110 It marrede, it mournede, it moyssede for made. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. cc.liiv/2 I go madde I go vp and downe lyke a madde body, je cours les rues.] 1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 105 He sports to outward sight, but inward chafes like mad. 1653 Mercurius Democritus No. 51. 393 An unlucky Crack the other day crying Coals through the streets at 10d. the Bushell, the poor People flocking about him like mad. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 13 June (1971) IV. 182 Thence by coach with a mad coachman that drove like mad. 1732 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Trag. ii. xii. 30 My reeling Head! which akes like any mad. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xvii. 118 Several Harlequins, and other ludicrous Forms, that jump'd and ran about like mad. 1745 C. J. Hamilton Let. in Academy (1893) 18 Nov. 440/3 They were Shooting at ye Standards Like Mad. 1824 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 262 We are writing like mad for the post. 1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny 101 We..heard our fellows cheering like mad. 1934 J. B. Priestley Eng. Journey iii. 55 They wanted Old Polly to dance, but she wouldn't..until they'd gone, and then she danced like mad. 1965 New Statesman 14 May 753/1 Do Royal tours really matter? They matter like mad to the British embassy staff in the country concerned. 1990 Sunday Express Mag. 21 Oct. 20/2 Fear is nothing compared with the discomfort...‘Your back aches like mad.’ P2. Proverbial phrases. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [adjective] annoyedc1330 crabbedc1480 provoked1538 chafing1539 nettledc1576 chafed1582 irritated1595 as mad as Ajax1598 aggravated1611 enchafeda1616 irritate1626 on or upon the fret1679 as mad as a wet hen1823 as mad as a meat axe1855 scotty1867 hacked1892 raggy1900 ratty1909 pipped1914 fucked-off1923 rubbed1927 eggy1935 broigus1937 salty1938 pissed1943 peed off1948 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 6 By the Lord this Loue is as madd as Aiax, it kills Sheepe. View more context for this quotation 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois iii. 40 Murther market folkes, quarrell with sheepe, And runne as mad as Aiax. 1732 T. Fuller Gnomologia 140 Love is as mad as Ajax; it kills Sheep, so it kills me. b. as mad as a brush (see brush n.2 Additions). ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. i. 73 It would make a man mad as a Bucke to be so bought and sold. View more context for this quotation ΚΠ c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 19 (MED) Þer fell a swyngyllyng in his hede þat he wex fonde with, & mad as a guse. e. as mad as a (March) hare (see hare n. 1b, March n.2 Compounds 2). ΚΠ a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens sig. Gii Ye by my trowth as made as an hare. 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. xv As mad not as marche hare, but as a madde dogge. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 63 It pits me ay as mad's a hare. 1902 R. H. Barbour Behind Line xiii. 131 ‘Sandy’ saw me grinning at him in class yesterday and got as mad as a March hare. 1974 W. Foley Child in Forest 56 Then, mad as a bunch of March hares, yelling and hooting at the top of our voices, we rushed as fast as our legs would carry us. f. as mad as a hatter [Origin uncertain. Perhaps with allusion to the effects of mercury poisoning formerly suffered by hat-makers as a result of the use of mercurous nitrate in the manufacture of felt hats. Compare later hatters' shakes n. at hatter n.2 Compounds.] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 792 Tickler (aside to Shepherd.) He's raving. Shepherd (to Tickler.) Dementit. [sic] Odoherty (to both.) Mad as a hatter. Hand me a segar. 1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 109 Sister Sall..walked out of the room, as mad as a hatter. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. x. 92 We were..chaffing Derby Oaks—until he was as mad as a hatter. 1909 E. Pound Personae 20 Mad as a hatter but surely no Myope. 1956 M. Dickens Angel in Corner xi. 241 You probably think I'm as mad as a hatter. g. as mad as a hornet North American. ΚΠ 1848 Tioga (Wellsboro, Pa.) Eagle 12 Jan. 1/4 While old Darling, who was mad as a hornet, was gwine to have Doolittle arrested for niggar stealin, right off. 1919 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. 80 In the familiar simile, as mad as a hornet, it [sc. the word mad] is used in the American sense. 1927 Amer. Speech 2 360 He was as mad as a hornet when he heard how the election went. ΚΠ a1625 J. Fletcher Noble Gentleman i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dd3/2 Monsieur Shattillion's mad... Mad as May-butter, And which is more, mad for a wench. i. as mad as a meat axe (chiefly Australian and New Zealand). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [adjective] annoyedc1330 crabbedc1480 provoked1538 chafing1539 nettledc1576 chafed1582 irritated1595 as mad as Ajax1598 aggravated1611 enchafeda1616 irritate1626 on or upon the fret1679 as mad as a wet hen1823 as mad as a meat axe1855 scotty1867 hacked1892 raggy1900 ratty1909 pipped1914 fucked-off1923 rubbed1927 eggy1935 broigus1937 salty1938 pissed1943 peed off1948 1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. iii. 85 I feel as mad as a meat axe. 1946 J. Fountain in Coast to Coast 1945 252 The cow's mad—mad as a meat axe! 1970 D. M. Davin Not here, not Now v. iii. 263 She's mad as a meataxe anyway about the whole idea. j. as mad as a (cut) snake Australian. ΚΠ 1917 A. L. Brewer 'Gator's Euchre 29 When a new-chum gets lost, why..does he lose his head?.. They run as mad as snakes. 1932 ‘W. Hatfield’ Ginger Murdoch 30 ‘But you're mad!’ said Mick, ‘mad as a cut snake!’ 1951 S. Mackenzie Dead Men Rising 203 ‘Mad as a cut snake,’ Johnson said admiringly, ‘and there's not a better feller in the whole camp.’ 1963 Moderna Språk 57 i. 10 As mad as a cut snake: ‘mad’ is used in the sense of ‘angry’, and the phrase means ‘extremely angry’. 1982 T. Winton Open Swimmer 23 He's as mad as a cut snake. k. as mad as a tup English regional. ΚΠ 1901 T. Ratcliffe in Notes & Queries Sept. 501/2 In Derbyshire..there is no commoner saying to express anger shown by any one than to say that he or she was ‘as mad as a tup’. ΚΠ 1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. B3 If he were as madde as a weauer. m. as mad as a wet hen ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [adjective] annoyedc1330 crabbedc1480 provoked1538 chafing1539 nettledc1576 chafed1582 irritated1595 as mad as Ajax1598 aggravated1611 enchafeda1616 irritate1626 on or upon the fret1679 as mad as a wet hen1823 as mad as a meat axe1855 scotty1867 hacked1892 raggy1900 ratty1909 pipped1914 fucked-off1923 rubbed1927 eggy1935 broigus1937 salty1938 pissed1943 peed off1948 1823 J. Doddridge Dialogue Backwoodsman & Dandy in Logan 42 Every body that was not ax'd was mad as a wet hen. 1902 W. N. Harben Abner Daniel 54 The Colonel is as mad as a wet hen about the whole thing. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xviii. 249 My uncle will be as mad as a wet hen when he finds out that he has been fooled. 1971 Wall St. Jrnl. 22 July 1/4 The chicken farmers of Quebec..are as mad as, well a wet hen. P3. to go (also †fall, run) mad a. literal.In later use to run mad is most commonly found in East African and West African English. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)] dwelec900 wedec900 awedeeOE starea1275 braidc1275 ravea1325 to be out of mindc1325 woodc1374 to lose one's mindc1380 madc1384 forgetc1385 to go out of one's minda1398 to wede (out) of, but wita1400 foolc1400 to go (also fall, run) mada1450 forcene1490 ragec1515 waltc1540 maddle?c1550 to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565 pass of wita1616 to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682 madden1704 to go (also be) off at the nail1721 distract1768 craze1818 to get a rat1890 to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896 (to have) bats in the belfryc1901 to have straws in one's hair1923 to take the bats1927 to go haywire1929 to go mental1930 to go troppo1941 to come apart1954 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > drive mad [verb (transitive)] turn1372 mada1425 overthrow?a1425 to go (also fall, run) mada1450 deferc1480 craze1503 to face (a person) out ofc1530 dement1545 distemper1581 shake1594 distract1600 to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1600 unwita1616 insaniate?1623 embedlama1628 dementate1628 crack1631 unreason1643 bemad1655 ecstasya1657 overset1695 madden1720 maddle1775 insanify1809 derange1825 bemoon1866 send (someone) up the wall1951 a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) 7894 And in your servyse he come ne hade, He shuld not now have ronne madde. a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 153 Thys y goo made, for on hur face y darnot loke lest loue me scorne. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. x. 65 Son, quha sa..ondantit ire has rasyt in thé? Quhy gois thou mad? a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. ii. sig. D.iij Lest ye for lesing of him perchaunce might runne mad. 1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 38v He..feeleth such painfull passions, as he runneth mad. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 207 Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad. View more context for this quotation 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 445 O foole I shall goe mad . View more context for this quotation 1654 R. Codrington tr. Sextus Aurelius Victor Coll. Lives Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. 567 Being troubled in his Conscience he did fall mad. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. iii. 191 Seeing Nini preferr'd, [he] was ready to run mad. 1709 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 12 Nov. (1965) I. 18 You have not then received my letter? Well! I shall run mad. 1782 W. Cowper Poems I. 314 What! hang a man for going mad? Then farewell British freedom. a1804 W. Blake Vala i, in Compl. Writings (1972) 265 Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus Every moment of my Secret hours. 1839 in Amer. Speech (1965) 40 130 O dear, I shall go mad, My husband is so crazy. 1861 D. G. Rossetti Early Ital. Poets ii. 220 A perversion of gospel teaching which had gained ground in his day to the extent of becoming a popular frenzy. People went literally mad upon it. 1894 ‘A. Hope’ Prisoner of Zenda x. 143 They might have believed that the King had run mad. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xciv. 492 He felt he would go mad if he had to spend another night in London. 1956 W. Golding Pincher Martin xii. 188 I am going mad. There is lightning playing on the skirts of a wild sea. 1972 National Assembly Official Rep. (Republic of Kenya) 28 1211 Do you think the statement..that a person works for 24 hours, is right? In fact, if anybody did that he would run mad. 2001 N. Hornby How to be Good iii. 42 It could well be that I am going mad; or, on the other hand, that I am simply confused and unhappy. 2020 Sun (Nigeria) (Nexis) 31 Oct. My husband would do some things that would almost make me run mad. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 10 It is not Poetry, but Prose run mad. 1762 J. Wesley Jrnl. 6 Nov. in Extract of Jrnl. (1768) XII. 7 That manner of writing, in Prose run mad, I cordially dislike. 1845 C. Dickens Let. 4 Feb. (1977) IV. 261 This packet must go to Torlonia's before Rome goes mad—which will be soon after Mid-day. 1889 C. Smith Repentance Paul Wentworth III. ix. 133 His native land appeared to him to have run mad on the Welsh scare. 1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans Pref. p. xxix Besides, I have a technical objection to making sexual infatuation a tragic theme. Experience proves that it is only effective in the comic spirit..but..to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our lives worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically. 1914 G. B. Shaw Parents & Children in Misalliance p. cii The sort of Rationalism which says to a child ‘You must suspend your judgment until you are old enough to choose your religion’ is Rationalism gone mad. 1923 L. W. Reese Wild Cherry 21 The weather has gone mad with white. 1949 T. Rattigan Playbill 56 The lighting for this scene has gone mad. 1988 D. Roberts Jean Stafford vii. 126 Stephens College in 1937 was actually a living parody of progressive educational theory—Deweyism gone mad and soft. c. to drive mad: see drive v. 24c. d. to go mad (about, for, over, etc.): to allow oneself to be carried away by enthusiasm or excitement. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > be zealous for [verb (transitive)] to run after ——c1422 zeal1542 to throw one's heart (also soul, energy, etc.) into1807 to go mad (about, for, over, etc.)1850 to be shook on1888 to be hepped on1926 the mind > emotion > excitement > riotous excitement > make (oneself) riotously excited [verb (transitive)] to go mad (about, for, over, etc.)1850 to go (also drive) bananas1957 1850 R. W. Emerson Goethe in Representative Men vii. 261 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo, whether tariff, Texas, railroad, Romanism, mesmerism, or California; and..a multitude go mad about it. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. iii. 48 Why should we not go mad for china? It is as sensible as going mad over rinking. 1936 G. B. Shaw Millionairess i, in Simpleton, Six, & Millionairess 153 The whole town went mad about the angry-eyed woman. It rained money in bucketsful. 1992 Pract. Fishkeeping July 98/3 I went mad and bought a 24″ glass tank with a crude external filter. to go mad (about, for, over, etc.) d. to go mad (about, for, over, etc.): to allow oneself to be carried away by enthusiasm or excitement. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > be zealous for [verb (transitive)] to run after ——c1422 zeal1542 to throw one's heart (also soul, energy, etc.) into1807 to go mad (about, for, over, etc.)1850 to be shook on1888 to be hepped on1926 the mind > emotion > excitement > riotous excitement > make (oneself) riotously excited [verb (transitive)] to go mad (about, for, over, etc.)1850 to go (also drive) bananas1957 1850 R. W. Emerson Goethe in Representative Men vii. 261 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo, whether tariff, Texas, railroad, Romanism, mesmerism, or California; and..a multitude go mad about it. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. iii. 48 Why should we not go mad for china? It is as sensible as going mad over rinking. 1936 G. B. Shaw Millionairess i, in Simpleton, Six, & Millionairess 153 The whole town went mad about the angry-eyed woman. It rained money in bucketsful. 1992 Pract. Fishkeeping July 98/3 I went mad and bought a 24″ glass tank with a crude external filter. < as lemmas |
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