madmad /mæd/ ●●● S2 W3 adjective (comparative madder, superlative maddest) 
Are you still mad at me? We get mad at each other sometimes, like any family.mad about There’s no need to get mad about it! You make me so mad!mad with British English His wife will be really mad with him.go mad British English (=become very angry) Look at this mess! Mum will go mad!hopping mad (=very angry)(as) mad as hell (=a rude way of saying very angry)► see thesaurus at angry2crazy especially British English crazy or very silly: He can’t possibly get that finished in time. He must be mad! I’d go mad (=start to feel crazy) if I was stuck at home all day. He’s been driving me mad! You’ve agreed to marry him! Are you mad? Surely no one would be mad enough to fly in this weather? My friends all think I’m stark raving mad (=completely crazy). It’s enough to send you barking mad (=completely crazy).as mad as a hatter/March hare (=completely crazy)GRAMMARIn this meaning, mad is not used with ‘very’. You say: · It’s an absolutely mad idea. ✗Don’t say: It’s a very mad idea.Grammar guide ‒ ADJECTIVES3uncontrolled especially British English behaving in a wild uncontrolled way, without thinking about what you are doingmad dash/rush/panic etc We all made a mad dash for the door.mad with grief/fear/jealousy etc When she heard of her son’s death, she was mad with grief. When Italy scored, the crowd went mad (=became very excited). We went a bit mad (=spent a lot of money) and ordered champagne.4be mad about/for/on somebody/something informal especially British English to like someone or something very much SYN crazy: My nine-year-old is mad about Robbie Williams. He’s mad about computer games. All the girls at school are mad for him.be mad keen (on something) ‘Did you enjoy the film?’ ‘I wasn’t mad keen.’be mad for it (=want to do something very much)5mentally ill especially British English old-fashioned informal mentally ill SYN insane: Mr Rochester’s mad wife He turned towards me with a mad look in his eyes. the cartoon figure of the mad scientist6like mad informal very much, very quickly, or with a lot of energy: I caught my thumb in the door and it hurt like mad. She ran like mad to catch the bus.7don’t go mad British English spoken used to tell someone not to work too hard, get too excited, or spend too much money: I know you’ve got a lot to do but don’t go mad.8power-mad/money-mad/sex-mad etc only interested in having power, money etc and doing everything possible to get it: a power-mad dictator
WORD ORIGINmad
Origin:
Old English gemædEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Don't get mad. It was an accident.
- Don seems really mad about something.
- Ernie was mad because we woke him up.
- Sally was mad at the children for making so much noise.
- Sheila's mad at me because I forgot to feed the cats yesterday.
- There was a mad gleam in his bloodshot eyes.
- They say she went mad after her family were killed in a fire.
- Was he mad?
- We soon realized that the old man was completely mad.
- Although mad, flagellants are not cowards.
- In the ones with both of us, we was laughing like mad.
- It seems that everyone in Sierra has been driven mad by the heat.
- She looked mean, she looked mad.
- The thing is she gets mad at the littlest things.
- The yellow lights on their anorexic columns look mad, like cyclopean triffids, very thin, very tall.
- You couldn't ring the bell or they would go mad.
THESAURUS
feeling strong emotions because you think someone has behaved badly, or because a situation seems bad or unfair: · He gets really angry if people keep him waiting.· a crowd of angry protesters
[not before noun] informal angry: · Dad was mad at me for damaging the car.
[not before noun] spoken rather angry – used when speaking to people you know well: · She was cross with me for being late.
[not before noun] a little angry: · I was annoyed no one had told me the class was cancelled.
annoyed and impatient, especially by something that keeps happening or something someone keeps saying: · I was irritated by their stupid questions.· an irritated voice
becoming annoyed or angry easily: · a bad-tempered old man· He’s always bad-tempered when he doesn’t get what he wants.
feeling a little angry for a period of time, often for no particular reason: · I woke up in a bad mood.· She’s been in a foul mood all morning.
in an angry mood for a short time, especially because someone has just said something to offend or annoy you: · He walked off in a huff when they refused to let him join in their game.
informal used when you think someone has been in an angry mood all day, for no particular reason – often used humorously: · I don’t know what’s wrong – she must have got up on the wrong side of the bed today.
very strange or not sensible – used about people, ideas, and behaviour: · People think I’m crazy when I start talking about ghosts.· It was a crazy thing to do.
British English crazy: · Are you mad?· Whose mad idea was that?· At first, everyone thought he was completely mad.
informal (also bonkers British English) [not before noun] crazy: · The whole thing sounds completely nuts.· Have you gone bonkers?
informal crazy: · another loony suggestion· The man is totally loony.
completely crazy: · I know it sounds insane, but it’s true.
→ see also mentally ill having an illness that affects your mind and your behaviour: · Many mentally ill people are treated in the community.· He was declared mentally ill and unfit to stand trial.
informal mentally ill: · I couldn’t think straight. I felt like I was going crazy (=becoming crazy).
old-fashioned mentally ill. This word is now usually considered offensive, and is usually used in a different meaning, when you think that someone’s ideas are not sensible: · Swift himself went mad (=became mad) later in life.· a mad old woman
[not before noun] old-fashioned having a serious and permanent mental illness: · She went insane after her two young sons were murdered.· a hospital for the criminally insane
not behaving in a normal way because of mental or emotional problems, especially problems that are caused by bad experiences: · She teaches emotionally disturbed children.· Her experiences left her deeply disturbed.
having an emotional state that often changes very suddenly: · Her mother was mentally unstable.· He lived in a small Putney flat with his ageing Aunt Bunny, and his emotionally unstable sister, Nancy.· He was too unstable to be a leader.
behaving in a crazy or dangerous way, usually because of being mentally ill: · A deranged young woman entered the school and took the life of one young boy.
having a serious and permanent mental illness that causes violent or criminal behaviour: · The film is about a psychopathic killer.
suffering from or caused by a serious mental illness that changes your character and makes you unable to behave in a normal way: · psychiatric services for chronic psychotic patients.· There is a tendency for psychotic illnesses to be inherited.
relating to or suffering from a mental illness that makes you unreasonably worried of frightened: · His mother was neurotic and insecure.· She’s neurotic about her weight.· A bored or lonely horse may become so neurotic that it chases itself around in circles.
Longman Language Activatorfeeling angry · My dad gets really angry if anyone keeps him waiting.· Stone's new book is sure to make a lot of women angry.· Hundreds of angry students gathered to protest the tuition increase.· After the programme, the TV station received hundreds of angry phone calls.angry with · Sue's still very angry with me for forgetting our anniversary.angry about · My folks were really angry about my grades.angry that · Mary's angry that we didn't save her any pizza.· Local people are angry that they weren't told about plans to expand the airport.
especially American angry: · Ernie was mad because we woke him up.· Don't get mad. It was an accident.· Sheila's mad at me because I forgot to feed the cats yesterday.· Sally was mad at the children for making so much noise.mad about: · Don seems really mad about something.
a little angry: · Sandra was very annoyed that I was late.· Mike gets annoyed if anyone goes in his room when he's out.· Professor Johnson was annoyed when I told her my paper was going to be late.annoyed with/at: · Meg was annoyed with me because I forgot to stop and buy bread on my way home.annoyed by/about: · Everyone is annoyed by the constant noise of the construction project.
a little angry and impatient about something, especially an annoying situation that you think has continued for too long: irritated with/by: · Paul was irritated with the children because he was tired.irritated at: · The teacher was clearly irritated at having his class interrupted.· Margot gets irritated if people leave dirty dishes in the sink.
British a word used especially by children or to children meaning a little angry: · Mum will be cross when she finds out about the broken vase.cross with: · I'm sorry I was cross with you.
British to be very angry for a short time, especially when other people think you have no real reason to be: · Jeff was in a temper this morning, so I left the house as early as possible.be in a bad/foul temper: · Donna's been in a foul temper all day.
also pissed American informal an impolite expression meaning angry, especially about something that someone has done: · I don't know why you're so pissed off -- I told you I might be late.· Darren got really pissed when I told him that.pissed off with: · Wendy's pissed off with me for not returning her call.pissed off about: · I'm really pissed off about the schedule changes - it messes everything up.pissed off at American: · Why are you pissed at him?
a little angry and impatient because of an unpleasant or difficult situation that you feel unable to change or control: · Stacy got so frustrated that she stood up and walked out of the room.· Frustrated parents were calling the school to complain.frustrated with: · My boss is frustrated with me for coming in late.
British /ticked off American a little angry about something that annoys you, especially something that happens a lot: · Mick was hacked off when he saw his girlfriend dancing with another guy.hacked off with: · Lee's ticked off with me for not inviting him to the party.
people someone who is crazy does things that are extremely strange or stupid: · My dad told me I was crazy to leave my job.· You agreed to marry him? Are you crazy?· crazy drivers who cause accidents· His friends thought he was crazy when he told them he was going to spend his entire vacation exploring a cave.completely/totally crazy: · Put that gun down! Are you totally crazy?crazy to do something: · You're crazy to lend him all that money - you'll never get it back.
also be crackers British spoken informal to be crazy: · People will think you're crackers if you go around talking to yourself like that.· The guy's completely nuts! He goes around in nothing but a pair of shorts in the middle of winter.
British spoken crazy: · You spent $190 on a pair of shoes? You must be mad!completely mad/barmy: · Monica's new boyfriend is completely barmy. He calls her almost every day from Australia.mad/barmy to do something: · She's mad to turn down an offer like that.· I must have been mad to let myself become involved with someone like Dennis.
especially spoken you say someone is insane or out of their mind if they do something or intend to do something that is completely crazy: · Anyone who would take a boat out in this weather must be insane.· Tell the police? Are you out of your mind?
say this when you think someone is crazy because they have done something that you do not approve of or agree with: · A man who would give his fourteen-year-old son a motorcycle has obviously taken leave of his senses.· If you ask me, anyone who believes in UFOs needs their head examined.
informal also dotty/batty British informal crazy - use this to describe someone, especially an old person, who behaves in a slightly strange but often amusing way: · Grandma can act kind of nutty at times.· My uncle frequently wore shoes which didn't match, and everyone thought he was a bit dotty.· Next door to us lived a batty old lady who used to have long conversations with her plants.
informal someone who is out to lunch or out of their tree behaves in a strange, confused way and does not seem to know what is happening around them: · Our English teacher's really out to lunch -- the class started five weeks ago and she hasn't even asked our names yet.· He is quoted as saying privately that he thinks the former prime minister is 'out of her tree'.
especially American, informal someone who seems unable to think clearly or do what they should do, and behaves in a strange but often amusing way: · Christy was kind of flaky, but everyone liked her.· You couldn't trust Sam to do anything important. He was too flaky.
also be a couple of cans short of a six-pack/be a few clowns short of a circus etc strange and slightly crazy: · I always thought Toby was one sandwich short of a picnic. Do you remember how he would sometimes work naked in the garden? · Come on. Let's face it - nobody trusts the guy because he's at least one clown short of a circus.
informal slightly crazy, often in an amusing way: · "Fernando can be really weird sometimes." "Yeah, he's got a screw loose, no question."
to make someone feel crazy to make someone feel crazy or behave in a crazy way: · I've just got to get another job -- this one's driving me nuts.· I can't wait to get my exam results. All this waiting is driving me insane.· I hate doing crossword puzzles -- they drive me mad.· Those kids are enough to drive anyone crazy. I'll be glad when they go back to school.
especially British, informal if something such as a lot of work, worry, or doing something you hate drives you round the bend or drives you round the twist , it makes you feel completely crazy: · I have so much to do at the moment. It's driving me round the twist.· She was really glad when she gave up teaching. It was driving her right round the bend.
to make someone feel crazy, especially by repeatedly doing something annoying: · Can you turn down that TV? It's driving me up the wall!· I love my husband, but he's driving me up the wall.
to start to behave in a crazy and excited way also go mad British to start behaving in a crazy, uncontrolled way, especially when you are very excited: · The fans went crazy when the band came onto the stage.· During Carnival the entire city goes crazy for a week.· As soon as the dog hears anyone at the door he goes completely nuts.· When Italy scored the winning goal the crowd went mad.
to suddenly start behaving in an extremely wild, violent, and often frightening way: · When they tried to arrest him, he suddenly went berserk.· She went berserk and began shouting at everybody on the platform.
to start to feel crazy because you are extremely bored, worried, etc also go mad British informal to start feeling as if you are crazy, especially when you are in a very unpleasant or very boring situation: · I wouldn't last a month in a desk job. I'd just go crazy.· I'd go nuts if I had to get up that early every morning.· If the neighbors don't turn down that music, I'm going to go mad.
to become unable to think clearly or sensibly, especially because you are extremely bored or worried: · If I have to wait in one more line, I'm going to go out of my mind.· I'm with the kids all day, and I feel like I'm losing my mind.
British /go around the bend American informal to start feeling as if you are crazy, for example because you have so much work to do, you are extremely worried about something, or you hate the situation you are in so much: · I had such a heavy workload last semester that I almost went round the bend.· We hadn't heard from our daughter in days, and we were practically going round the bend.
mentally ill someone who is mentally ill has an illness of the mind which affects the way that they behave: · Many of these homeless people have been mentally ill at some time.the mentally ill (=people who are mentally ill): · He works in a hostel for the mentally ill.
connected with mental illness or people who are mentally ill: mental hospital/patient/institution: · a hospital ward for non-violent mental patientsmental problem/disorder/breakdown: · We knew she had been having mental problems.
formal permanently and seriously mentally ill, so that you cannot have a normal life - use this in legal contexts or in descriptions of people who lived in the past: · The man, who has attacked 13 women, was judged to be insane.go insane (=become seriously mentally ill): · Sometimes I thought I was going insane.
British crazy especially American mentally ill - use this in conversations or stories, but not in formal, medical, or legal English: · We soon realized that the old man was completely mad.· There's this crazy woman in our town who eats glass.go mad/crazy: · They say she went mad after her family were killed in a fire.
if someone is unstable , their emotional state often changes very suddenly, and they are likely to become angry, violent etc: · Working with Clare every day, I began to realize how unstable she was.emotionally/mentally unstable: · He is emotionally unstable, and his aggressive attitude often culminates in violence.
an old person who is confused has become mentally ill so that they cannot remember things or think clearly: · Aunt Clara had been so sharp, so witty, but now she is just a sad, confused old woman.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY We get mad at each other sometimes, like any family. There’s no need to get mad about it! You make me so mad! He can’t possibly get that finished in time. He must be mad! I’d go mad (=start to feel crazy) if I was stuck at home all day. He’s been driving me mad! My friends all think I’m stark raving mad (=completely crazy). It’s enough to send you barking mad (=completely crazy). We all made a mad dash for the door. When she heard of her son’s death, she was mad with grief. When Italy scored, the crowd went mad (=became very excited). We went a bit mad (=spent a lot of money) and ordered champagne. ‘Did you enjoy the film?’ ‘I wasn’t mad keen.’ the cartoon figure of the mad scientistCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He went crazy and tried to kill her. The crowd was going wild with excitement. At five past twelve there was a mad rush to the dinner hall. It was a mad scramble trying to get things ready in time.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
We get mad at each other sometimes, like any family. There’s no need to get mad about it! You make me so mad! British English (=become very angry) Look at this mess! Mum will go mad!
Look at this mess! Mum will go mad! (=very angry)
(=a rude way of saying very angry)
He can’t possibly get that finished in time. He must be mad! I’d go mad (=start to feel crazy) if I was stuck at home all day. He’s been driving me mad! My friends all think I’m stark raving mad (=completely crazy). It’s enough to send you barking mad (=completely crazy). (=completely crazy)
We all made a mad dash for the door. When she heard of her son’s death, she was mad with grief. When Italy scored, the crowd went mad (=became very excited). We went a bit mad (=spent a lot of money) and ordered champagne. ‘Did you enjoy the film?’ ‘I wasn’t mad keen.’ (=want to do something very much)
the cartoon figure of the mad scientist (=very fast, usually because you are worried about something)· ‘Something’s burning’, she said, making a mad dash for the kitchen.
spoken (also drive somebody nuts spoken informal) (=make someone feel very annoyed)· The continuous noise was driving me crazy.
(=very angry, afraid etc)· He stared at them with wild eyes.
He went crazy and tried to kill her. The crowd was going wild with excitement. (=very keen on something) spoken I was mad keen on dinosaurs when I was little.
I was mad keen on dinosaurs when I was little. At five past twelve there was a mad rush to the dinner hall. It was a mad scramble trying to get things ready in time.· You don't want to see him as mad, a suicide, a killer.· The system is as mad as the madman it wants to kill.· Non-conformists are often regarded as mad, bad and dangerous to know.· Now absorbed in the new Highland Region, it is still there and as mad as ever.· From what I can gather he was as mad as a hatter, and really no good at all.· He gathered all the renegade magicians together and revealed a plan as mad as it was bold.· A lot of people are classed as mad and shut away without any need.
· So is the new owner completely mad ... Male speaker People have said that already.· A form of meditation, I suppose, at the end of which you have either reached nirvana or are completely mad.· They would really believe that I had gone completely mad.· In that moment, she thought he had gone completely mad.· But buyers are not completely mad.· I don't even know why you're doing it, unless you've suddenly gone completely mad.· The world had gone completely mad.
· Also Beuys, passing through, hat and horse, quite mad.· The shopkeeper looked at me as if I were quite mad.· He always thought old Beddington was quite mad, and now he knew it.· Has Jeremy Fox gone quite mad?· However, it should be remembered that, at the time, most of his academic peers thought him quite mad!· I thought she was quite mad.· You're quite mad, she told herself as she drove back to Roziac.
· Honestly, Ethel, she sounded really mad, wittering on about beetles up her pyjama leg and suchlike.· Her boss, Detective Hineline, is always giving her a hard time and she never gets really mad at him.· But he never, and I went really mad.· Don Quixote, in my view, was not really mad.· Then she got really mad and started screaming back at me.· For a long time, I was really mad.
· I've seen how Dickie's pals look when taking the eleven plus, and it makes me so mad, Jo!· It made him so mad, he decided to run for supervisor himself.· He says that he was so mad that he got a knife to scare them.· It was that, initially, that made me so mad.· I know you must be so mad that you have this scary feeling from the big noise of the thunder.· It was so grave, so mad.· He got so mad he threw the Bible out the bedroom window right through the glass.
NOUN· Only a mad dash got them to the meeting on time.· Kenny Lofton made a mad dash for the ball, got to it and had it pop off his glove.· Why do cats suddenly make mad dashes around the house?· At Freeport, the Jones Beach stop, was the mad dash for the bus.· The pent-up energy overflows and a mad dash is on.· One mad dash around the Phoenix area to see the big-leaguers play.· Their runs batted in were his mad dashes from second base.· When Helen grabs her son and makes a mad dash, you feel the danger.
· The mad hatter, the March hare and the dormouse.· I had the family-planning abilities of a mad hatter.· So both the March hare and the mad hatter are very mad.
· The Flaubert Bestiary I attract mad people and animals.· She wasn't really violent like other mad people.· Betty Boop look-alike, 17, mental, witty letter-writer Likes: cinema, dancing, food, mad people.· Hackney has always been a resort for madhouses and mad people.· The mad people treasured it, and Adamus was their instrument.· Just right for mad people like her.· In the gloom, she pictured the sad, mad people who'd walked there.
· Twenty five minutes past twelve came and there was a mad rush to the dinner hall.· Towards evening I went in search of bed and breakfast; the mad rush to the west could wait.
· The sooner he could phone the mad scientist, and take them to the poly, the better.· Well, Holmes, he looks just like the popular caricature of a mad scientist.· Well he wasn't going hedgehog-spotting, not till he'd fixed up a deal with the mad scientist.· Castle, this 1959 thriller casts Price as a mad scientist who discovers the biological cause of fear in human beings.· This distrust is evident in the cartoon figure of the mad scientist working in his laboratory to produce a Frankenstein.· There was a fourth, but it was too squashed to be much good to the mad scientist.
· And whatever happens, after May 3 they're predicting a mad scramble for one-way only tickets.· A mad scramble followed a Dollar free throw, and Hamilton eventually grabbed the ball on the right wing.· Spurs regained the lead in the 51st minute after a mad scramble in the United area before Jason Dozzell slotted home.· Police contend Bagby nearly ran over two officers in a mad scramble to get home.
· Joan, the mad woman, stopped cooking.· The night of the fire Rochester saw the mad woman on the battlements of the hall and attempted to rescue her.· But there she was, like a mad woman, ready for going out.· Madmen and mad women pushing shopping carts nearly ran over children, then dared cars to run them over.· I shall be alone with that mad woman upstairs.· And he was her son, he was the son of a mad woman.· Outside a mad woman was talking to herself: she wore several coats and had a troubled, concentrated expression.· It's been killed by that old mad woman.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► don’t go mad► power-mad/money-mad/sex-mad etc► like madPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1angry [not before noun] informal especially American English angrymad at- Everyone was mad about youth nowadays.
- Floyd was mad for her, but his father refused to let him borrow the car.
- I was mad about her being killed, mad at whoever killed her.
- Maybe he was mad for a while, then not mad.
- She insisted she only wanted a memento, but I think she was mad about the parking surcharge.
- Somehow the word got round that I was mad about maritime art.
- Well, of course, she must take it up ... his wife was mad on it.
- I was as angry as hell.
- Lucy was shy as hell, and Jay was sure and easy.
- She washed spiders down the plughole, and felt guilty as hell about it.
- Strong, dedicated, skilful, passionate, intelligent and as angry as hell.
- The Jaguar is reported to have crashed in a distant country, mad as hell.
- These people were mad as hell.
- Whenever her family had been mentioned she looked as guilty as hell.
- Bunker had received the message from a convener at one of the Midlands plants, who was also hopping mad.
- Christmas dinner ruined and so on - she's hopping mad.
- Just as well for him, because she was hopping mad.
- No wonder, then, that several institutions are hopping mad.
- Trainer Michael O'Leary was also hopping mad.
- Well, I've just been round the tents and Lyons are hopping mad!
- All of this doesn't mean he wasn't stark raving mad, and just putting on.
- All of this doesn't mean he wasn't stark raving mad, and just putting on.
- Pierce was steaming mad after he got the second penalty.
- A small storm had come up, and cars were steaming by on the road alongside the river.
- A tea-bag, a spoon of Marvel milk-powder, and the green plastic mug was steaming triumphantly by my side.
- Fifteen minutes after the rains began, according to equatorial form, the sky had cleared and we were steaming dry.
- In October 1927, the young missionary was steaming at 15-20 knots towards Rangoon.
- Soon ... In the elevator Peggy Vanderheld was steaming, and not only with the heat.
- This is steaming with a difference.
- We were steaming in a circle for a reason.
Are you still mad at me? We get mad at each other sometimes, like any family.mad about There’s no need to get mad about it! You make me so mad!mad with British English His wife will be really mad with him.go mad British English (=become very angry) Look at this mess! Mum will go mad!hopping mad (=very angry)(as) mad as hell (=a rude way of saying very angry)► see thesaurus at angry2crazy especially British English crazy or very silly: He can’t possibly get that finished in time. He must be mad! I’d go mad (=start to feel crazy) if I was stuck at home all day. He’s been driving me mad! You’ve agreed to marry him! Are you mad? Surely no one would be mad enough to fly in this weather? My friends all think I’m stark raving mad (=completely crazy). It’s enough to send you barking mad (=completely crazy).as mad as a hatter/March hare (=completely crazy)GRAMMARIn this meaning, mad is not used with ‘very’. You say: · It’s an absolutely mad idea. ✗Don’t say: It’s a very mad idea.Grammar guide ‒ ADJECTIVES3uncontrolled especially British English behaving in a wild uncontrolled way, without thinking about what you are doingmad dash/rush/panic etc We all made a mad dash for the door.mad with grief/fear/jealousy etc When she heard of her son’s death, she was mad with grief. When Italy scored, the crowd went mad (=became very excited). We went a bit mad (=spent a lot of money) and ordered champagne.4be mad about/for/on somebody/something informal especially British English to like someone or something very much SYN crazy: My nine-year-old is mad about Robbie Williams. He’s mad about computer games. All the girls at school are mad for him.be mad keen (on something) ‘Did you enjoy the film?’ ‘I wasn’t mad keen.’be mad for it (=want to do something very much)5mentally ill especially British English old-fashioned informal mentally ill SYN insane: Mr Rochester’s mad wife He turned towards me with a mad look in his eyes. the cartoon figure of the mad scientist6like mad informal very much, very quickly, or with a lot of energy: I caught my thumb in the door and it hurt like mad. She ran like mad to catch the bus.7don’t go mad British English spoken used to tell someone not to work too hard, get too excited, or spend too much money: I know you’ve got a lot to do but don’t go mad.8power-mad/money-mad/sex-mad etc only interested in having power, money etc and doing everything possible to get it: a power-mad dictator- -high
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