hatter
61as mad as a hatter — Meaning Completely mad. Origin Hatters used to use mercury in the making of hats. This affected their nervous systems and, because of the tremors they experienced, they were labelled as mad. The Hatter in Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in… …
62mad as a hatter — strange, eccentric, batty, plumb loco If you wear that pink wig, people will think you re mad as a hatter …
63mad hatter — strange, unusual, wacko Jo lives in a mad hatter place. Her friends walk around nude and sing songs about heaven …
64be as mad as a hatter — to be crazy. Her brother s as mad as a hatter …
65as mad as a hatter — This simile means that someone is crazy or behaves very strangely. In the past many people who made hats went insane because they had a lot of contact with mercury …
66(as) mad as a hatter — often humorous phrase extremely silly or strange, sometimes because of mental illness Thesaurus: mentally illhyponym crazy or sillysynonym Main entry: mad …
67flat-hatter — noun see flat hat …
68black hatter — Canadian Slang Armoured crewman. Named after the black berets worn by the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Does not apply to Navy personnel although they too, wear a black beret …
69brown hatter — n a male homosexual. A derogatory term from the 1950s, still occasionally heard. The term refers both to the idea of contact between the head of the penis and excrement and to the archaic upper class notion that the wearing of brown hats on… …
70as mad as a hatter — stark raving mad, insane, deranged …