Origins of “Mad As A Hatter”
The phrase “mad as a hatter,” contrary to popular association with Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” did not originate from the novel. Carroll described the Hatter as mad but never used the exact phrase. The earliest documented use of “mad as a hatter” was in the 1829 short story “Noctes Ambrocianæ” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine,
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