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单词 as mad as a march hare
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as mad as a March hare
b. The male or buck hare is sometimes called Jack hare. During March (the breeding season) hares are wilder than at other times; hence the proverbial saying as mad as a March hare.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) > male
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1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. xv As mad not as marche hare, but as a madde dogge.
1627 M. Drayton Nimphidia in Battaile Agincourt 121 Oberon..grewe as mad as any Hare, When he had sought each place with care, And found his Queene was missing.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 221 The Males are usually call'd Jack Hares.
1783 W. Cowper Epit. on Hare 8 Old Tiny..Who, nursed with tender care,..Was still a wild Jack hare.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 15 For what is Hamlet, but a hare in March?
1865 ‘L. Carroll’ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland vi. 90 In that direction..lives a Hatter: and in that direction..lives a March Hare..they're both mad.
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as mad as a (March) hare
e. as mad as a (March) hare (see hare n. 1b, March n.2 Compounds 2).
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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.
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