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mad as a fish en · ADJ

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  1. (not-comparable, slang) Demented, crazy.
    • The only one I'm scared of is that Eliza Cooper. Mad as a fish that one. 2006, Lou Bellamy, Haunting the Dead, page 38:
    • Voluble, almost incomprehensible, mad as a fish and perpetually drunk. 2006, Damon Hammond, Totally Steaming: A Year on HMS Fearless, page 202:
    • I've got a station chief who's as mad as a fish, an incomplete briefing, and a gambling-obsessed billionaire to out-bluff. 2007, Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue:
    • Sean, the older brother, was as mad as a fish, but he was also the one with the brains and together they were a very entrepreneurial family. 2008, Andy Taylor, Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran: