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Definition of meat axe in English: meat axePhrases 1informal Crazy or eccentric. she was a hopeless teacher and mad as a meat axe Example sentencesExamples - 'You can be as mad as a meat-axe,' said the psychiatrist, 'but if you can live independently then no one is going to take the slightest notice of you.'
- Just as well that she would, in a court of law, appear as mad as a meat axe; her testimony was worthless.
- He had of course, he said, been of the opinion that Whitmore was as mad as a meat-axe.
- I thought he was mad as a meat-axe, and he frightened the stuffing out of me sometimes, even when he laughed.
- He was "a weirdo. Ranging and raving around the place ... as mad as a meat axe".
- 1.1Extremely angry.
I was as mad as a meat axe, and my anger boiled over Example sentencesExamples - Once again ice hockey had been portrayed as a game for goons and it made me as mad as a meat axe.
- Larry was as mad as a meat-axe and ordered that Hector accompanied him on a 'get even' mission.
- If it were Bertha who were ill for the same reason, he would be mad as a meat-axe.
- Callum is going to be mad as a meat-ax.
- Was it too much to own my experience without her trumping them with stories from her past? I'm entitled to be as mad as a meat ax.
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