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mad as a meat-axe
adjective
extremely mad AUSTRALIA, 1946
Generally meaning “insane” rather than “out of one’s mind with anger”.- Mad as a meat-axe, crazy as a loon. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 34, 1969
- Your Aunty Edna reckons she had to call the local funny farm. Reckon’d the old girl went as mad as a meataxe. — The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, 1972
- — Kerry Cue, Crooks, Chooks and Bloody Ratbags, p. 171, 1983
- — Dirk Flinthart, Brotherly Love, p. 87, 1995
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