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midsummer madness en · NOUN
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(uncountable) Madness attributable to the heat of summer, or to the midsummer moon.
Why this is very midsummer madness.
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:"Madness. Midsummer madness," muttered Gulliman.
1959, Isaac Asimov, “All the Troubles of the World”, in Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the Near Future, →OCLC, page 160: