Mad

You want to spend a thousand pounds on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?

He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.

I have heard my grandsire say full oft, / Extremity of griefs would make men mad.

Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.

Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left!

Are you mad at me?

And I punished them oft in euery Synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them euen vnto strange cities.

She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

Wow, you really made this pie from scratch? I'm not mad at it.

I'm not mad at this little house, though.

But I mean, once the flow was there, nobody was mad at it.

It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.

to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred

It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

My brother, quiet as a cat, seems perfectly contented with the internal feelings of his felicity. The Marquis, mad as a kitten, is all in motion to express it, from tongue to heel.

[…] at all, just a vast space of desert out in the saltlands of Nevada. It's serious dressing up, the maddest entertainment, craziest art, and at the end there's the burning of a huge effigy, stuffed with pyrotechnics 287.

Aren't you just mad for that red dress?

Glenereegan is to be sold to the highest bidder to-day.[…]I'm tould - It's Pether Byrne that dhrives Bianconi's car that tould me - that a smalpeen of a Dublin attorney is mad for it.

I gotta give you mad props for scoring us those tickets. Their lead guitarist has mad skills. There are always mad girls at those parties.

He was driving mad slow.

It's mad hot today.

He seems mad keen on her.

The imperial Elizabetta gazed with surprise at the youthful and unpretending appearance of the little being that had set the world madding.

This musick mads me, let it sound no more.

He that mads others, if he were so humoured, would be as mad himself, as much grieved and tormented […].

Carolina! Whine your body gyal! Make Dem know say you have it fi mad dem

[T]he only bombs anyone dropped—on Hiroshima and Nagasaki—were Uncle Sam's message to non-nuclear Japan. MAD was salvation. MAD was security. MAD was the way of life most of us grew up with, the prevailing logic of uneasy peace. So whatever became of our mad, mad world?

But the American government worries that MAD-style deterrence will no longer work. Terrorists, for example, might not care about the threat of destruction.