| 单词 | mad hatter's tea party |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmad hatter's tea party mad hatter n. [with allusion to the eccentric Hatter who hosts the tea party in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), and to the phrase as mad as a hatter at Phrases 2f] a highly eccentric or crazy character (frequently in mad hatter's tea party). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > person fantastical1589 fantastic1598 earwig brain1599 extravagant1627 fanatic1644 energumen1660 original1675 toy-pate1702 gig1777 quiz1780 quoz?1780 rum touch1800 crotcheteer1815 pistol1828 eccentric1832 case1833 originalist1835 cure1856 crotchet-monger1874 curiosity1874 crank1881 crackpot1883 faddist1883 schwärmer1884 hard case1892 finger1899 mad hatter1905 nut1908 numéro1924 screwball1933 wack1938 fruitcake1942 odd bod1942 oddball1943 ghoster1953 raver1959 kook1960 flake1968 woo-woo1972 zonky1972 wacko1977 headbanger1981 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > state of affairs mad hatter's tea party1974 1905 S. R. Crockett Sir Toady Crusoe viii. 59 Of all the mad hatters, Toady Lion,..you do take the bean. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 14/2 What possible interest can Spain have in a mad-hatter attempt to subjugate the Riff district? 1955 Times 20 May 9/2 I shudder to think of the..consequences of this mad hatter's export subsidy scheme. 1974 Times 9 Nov. 12/6 The world of catering sometimes has the air of a mad hatter's tea party, as chefs and proprietors move from one place to the next. 1990 Scuba Times Mar. 32/3 I watched the mad hatter of the sea, a large puffer fish, hovering over the top of our tiny world, flitting his tiny fins. < as lemmas |
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