Meaning of mad as a cut snake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Very irate, crazy with rage.
   Australia, colloquial, not-comparable
2. Crazy; eccentric.
   Australia, colloquial, not-comparable

Examples

“I′m feeling slightly less furious than I was earlier, but I′m still about as mad as a cut snake.”

“Sutcliffe went in hard, did everything to provoke him. Got him as mad as a cut snake.”

““Dad would be mad as a cut snake if he knew what you were doing,” Cal warned. “He hates Harry Fraser. All the Frasers.””

“2010, Stuart Gibbs, Belly Up, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, page 192, “ […] I know he wasn′t exactly Prince Charming, but for someone to kill him—at my very own zoo, no less—well, it makes me mad as a cut snake.””

““[…]Mad as a cut snake, he was. Good thing he didn′t have a gun. He′d a shot all three of the blokes and the snake too. Probably shot me just for laughing.””

““Trackless,” Sean muttered, “there′s a man over there planting a chopstick.″ “Him? That′s Lurker. Mad as a cut snake.””

“‘I have to tell you,’ he continued with his leaden and yet fascinating sincerity, ‘that you are a most exquisite and intelligent woman and I would like to court you. I′m no seducer or casual fornicator. It′s against my religion. If all this sounds mad as a cut snake, so be it. I was under necessity to say it. Would you accept my card?’”

“— Did you see him perform? — From the wings. Some Coward, a smidge of Richard the Third. Then R and J, with his missus, Vivian Leigh. Mad as a cut snake, but a wonderful actress.”

“What made her attractive was that she was cerebral as well as beautiful, a rare combination in movies, then as now. She was also as mad as a cut snake, which only added to her allure. In retrospect, I′d call her an el primo flake.”

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