adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mad/frantic dash (= very fast, usually because you are worried about something )
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‘Something’s burning’, she said, making a mad dash for the kitchen.
barking mad
drive sb crazy/mad/insane spoken ( also drive sb nuts spoken informal ) (= make someone feel very annoyed )
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The continuous noise was driving me crazy.
go mad/deaf/bald etc
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He went crazy and tried to kill her.
go wild/mad/white etc with sth
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The crowd was going wild with excitement.
mad cow disease
mad keen on sth (= very keen on something ) spoken
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I was mad keen on dinosaurs when I was little.
mad money
mad rush
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At five past twelve there was a mad rush to the dinner hall.
mad scramble
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It was a mad scramble trying to get things ready in time.
wild/mad eyes (= very angry, afraid etc )
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He stared at them with wild eyes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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You don't want to see him as mad , a suicide, a killer.
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The system is as mad as the madman it wants to kill.
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Non-conformists are often regarded as mad , bad and dangerous to know.
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Now absorbed in the new Highland Region, it is still there and as mad as ever.
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From what I can gather he was as mad as a hatter, and really no good at all.
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He gathered all the renegade magicians together and revealed a plan as mad as it was bold.
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A lot of people are classed as mad and shut away without any need.
completely
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So is the new owner completely mad ... Male speaker People have said that already.
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A form of meditation, I suppose, at the end of which you have either reached nirvana or are completely mad .
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They would really believe that I had gone completely mad .
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In that moment, she thought he had gone completely mad .
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But buyers are not completely mad .
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I don't even know why you're doing it, unless you've suddenly gone completely mad .
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The world had gone completely mad .
quite
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Also Beuys, passing through, hat and horse, quite mad .
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The shopkeeper looked at me as if I were quite mad .
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He always thought old Beddington was quite mad , and now he knew it.
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Has Jeremy Fox gone quite mad ?
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However, it should be remembered that, at the time, most of his academic peers thought him quite mad !
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I thought she was quite mad .
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You're quite mad , she told herself as she drove back to Roziac.
really
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Honestly, Ethel, she sounded really mad , wittering on about beetles up her pyjama leg and suchlike.
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Her boss, Detective Hineline, is always giving her a hard time and she never gets really mad at him.
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But he never, and I went really mad .
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Don Quixote, in my view, was not really mad .
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Then she got really mad and started screaming back at me.
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For a long time, I was really mad .
so
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I've seen how Dickie's pals look when taking the eleven plus, and it makes me so mad , Jo!
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It made him so mad , he decided to run for supervisor himself.
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He says that he was so mad that he got a knife to scare them.
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It was that, initially, that made me so mad .
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I know you must be so mad that you have this scary feeling from the big noise of the thunder.
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It was so grave, so mad .
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He got so mad he threw the Bible out the bedroom window right through the glass.
■ NOUN
dash
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Only a mad dash got them to the meeting on time.
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Kenny Lofton made a mad dash for the ball, got to it and had it pop off his glove.
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Why do cats suddenly make mad dashes around the house?
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At Freeport, the Jones Beach stop, was the mad dash for the bus.
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The pent-up energy overflows and a mad dash is on.
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One mad dash around the Phoenix area to see the big-leaguers play.
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Their runs batted in were his mad dashes from second base.
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When Helen grabs her son and makes a mad dash , you feel the danger.
hatter
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The mad hatter , the March hare and the dormouse.
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I had the family-planning abilities of a mad hatter .
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So both the March hare and the mad hatter are very mad.
people
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The Flaubert Bestiary I attract mad people and animals.
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She wasn't really violent like other mad people .
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Betty Boop look-alike, 17, mental, witty letter-writer Likes: cinema, dancing, food, mad people .
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Hackney has always been a resort for madhouses and mad people .
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The mad people treasured it, and Adamus was their instrument.
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Just right for mad people like her.
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In the gloom, she pictured the sad, mad people who'd walked there.
rush
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Twenty five minutes past twelve came and there was a mad rush to the dinner hall.
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Towards evening I went in search of bed and breakfast; the mad rush to the west could wait.
scientist
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The sooner he could phone the mad scientist , and take them to the poly, the better.
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Well, Holmes, he looks just like the popular caricature of a mad scientist .
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Well he wasn't going hedgehog-spotting, not till he'd fixed up a deal with the mad scientist .
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Castle, this 1959 thriller casts Price as a mad scientist who discovers the biological cause of fear in human beings.
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This distrust is evident in the cartoon figure of the mad scientist working in his laboratory to produce a Frankenstein.
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There was a fourth, but it was too squashed to be much good to the mad scientist .
scramble
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And whatever happens, after May 3 they're predicting a mad scramble for one-way only tickets.
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A mad scramble followed a Dollar free throw, and Hamilton eventually grabbed the ball on the right wing.
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Spurs regained the lead in the 51st minute after a mad scramble in the United area before Jason Dozzell slotted home.
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Police contend Bagby nearly ran over two officers in a mad scramble to get home.
woman
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Joan, the mad woman , stopped cooking.
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The night of the fire Rochester saw the mad woman on the battlements of the hall and attempted to rescue her.
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But there she was, like a mad woman , ready for going out.
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Madmen and mad women pushing shopping carts nearly ran over children, then dared cars to run them over.
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I shall be alone with that mad woman upstairs.
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And he was her son, he was the son of a mad woman .
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Outside a mad woman was talking to herself: she wore several coats and had a troubled, concentrated expression.
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It's been killed by that old mad woman .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(stark) raving mad/bonkers
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All of this doesn't mean he wasn't stark raving mad, and just putting on.
be steaming (mad)
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Pierce was steaming mad after he got the second penalty.
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A small storm had come up, and cars were steaming by on the road alongside the river.
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A tea-bag, a spoon of Marvel milk-powder, and the green plastic mug was steaming triumphantly by my side.
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Fifteen minutes after the rains began, according to equatorial form, the sky had cleared and we were steaming dry.
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In October 1927, the young missionary was steaming at 15-20 knots towards Rangoon.
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Soon ... In the elevator Peggy Vanderheld was steaming , and not only with the heat.
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This is steaming with a difference.
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We were steaming in a circle for a reason.
guilty/shy/mad/angry etc as hell
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I was as angry as hell .
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Lucy was shy as hell , and Jay was sure and easy.
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She washed spiders down the plughole, and felt guilty as hell about it.
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Strong, dedicated, skilful, passionate, intelligent and as angry as hell .
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The Jaguar is reported to have crashed in a distant country, mad as hell .
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These people were mad as hell .
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Whenever her family had been mentioned she looked as guilty as hell .
hopping mad
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Bunker had received the message from a convener at one of the Midlands plants, who was also hopping mad.
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Christmas dinner ruined and so on - she's hopping mad.
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Just as well for him, because she was hopping mad.
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No wonder, then, that several institutions are hopping mad.
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Trainer Michael O'Leary was also hopping mad.
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Well, I've just been round the tents and Lyons are hopping mad!
stark raving mad/bonkers
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All of this doesn't mean he wasn't stark raving mad, and just putting on.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't get mad . It was an accident.
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Don seems really mad about something.
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Ernie was mad because we woke him up.
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Sally was mad at the children for making so much noise.
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Sheila's mad at me because I forgot to feed the cats yesterday.
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There was a mad gleam in his bloodshot eyes.
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They say she went mad after her family were killed in a fire.
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Was he mad ?
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We soon realized that the old man was completely mad .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although mad , flagellants are not cowards.
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In the ones with both of us, we was laughing like mad .
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It seems that everyone in Sierra has been driven mad by the heat.
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She looked mean, she looked mad .
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The thing is she gets mad at the littlest things.
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The yellow lights on their anorexic columns look mad , like cyclopean triffids, very thin, very tall.
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You couldn't ring the bell or they would go mad .