Mad As A Hatter

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If someone says you are mad as a hatter, they are accusing you of being quite irrational. The sense of madness here is "suffering from a disorder of the mind; insane." This phrase usually refers not to someone who is actually insane, but rather to a more normal person who is behaving in an irrational way. The phrase emerged in England in the 19th century. Hatmakers in those days used a lot of felt that was treated with chemicals including lead, arsenic, and mercury. Unfortunately, those chemicals are highly toxic. The symptoms of such poisoning include palsy, confused speech, and distorted thinking. Today, making hats is a much safer profession, but the phrase survives. An interesting alternate explanation of the phrase derives hatter from Anglo-Saxon atter (poison), which is related to adder (a poisonous snake whose bite was thought to cause insanity). Urban Dictionary

This goes back to the time when the people in the hat industry wound up with mercury poisoning due to the process of manufacturing the felt for hats. Urban Dictionary

Someone who is crazy. Urban Dictionary

LSD reference from Alice in Wonderland. Urban Dictionary

An extremely ugly person, usually of Middle Eastern descent, with a large nose who is totally mad and likely to blow your ass up with some jihad shit. Urban Dictionary

Someone with great skills in a craft in which they specify. Many times used as a sports team name because of the definition. The image of the mad hatter team symbol usually shows a large, angry, and muscular man resembling 'Uncle Sam' the mascot of America. Urban Dictionary

A poorly performed handjob. Usually by a girl who says she is experienced. Yet, in actuality, she jerks you off like a crazed sea dragon. Urban Dictionary

When you take a hit off a pipe/bong/blunt with marijuana in it and in the same breath inhale from a cigarette and then without exhaling take a shot of hard liquor then exhale all the smoke after swallowing. Urban Dictionary

The Tea Party movement. Specifically the more radical ones that think there is a communist plot and a threat to the democracy to the country. They wear weird hats. They have insane conspiracy theories. They are loud, provocative, and in coherent... like the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Urban Dictionary

A sex game that is played with two or more people. The rules are simple, while in the middle of a sex act one person, who will play the part of the mad hatter, yells "Change places!" Everyone then must rush to switch positions and or partners. The same position cannot be used twice with the same partner. This is a reference to the tea party scene in the Alice in Wonderland book. Urban Dictionary

Words that sound like mad as a hatter:
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