mad go mad insane Arrested by the Germans in 1942 , he had saved his life by pretending to be mad and had been interned in the Saint-Anne asylum until the liberation . He added that in his hospital ` the people who are mad are the attendants . 'In appearance tall , bald and gangling , eyes alight with pleasure , tufts of hair in disarray , he was the personification of a slightly mad professor . barking mad One of them said simply : " She is barking mad now , of course. They shouldn't really let her out stark raving mad She looked at me as though she thought I was stark raving mad . crazy, stupid Plus it's plagued by idiot drivers who do mad things like cut you up or pull off other equally retarded moves . As a matter of fact , to seek refuge in such a place was the maddest thing we could have done . I then had the first of the mad ideas that helped to save our lives . When I first met him he thought I was mad because I didn't eat meat .Mummy , you must be mad if you think I would be seen dead in a yellow frock ! And I think the French think we are a bit mad to take that on . Enter our fantastic competition -- you'd be mad not to ! get mad angry " What really makes me mad is my dad helped Derrick back in 1991 by loaning him an engine , " he said .`` It makes me madder than hell , '' said police Capt. F. , who has headed the nearly year-long police investigation . hopping mad They were irate . They were fuming . Indeed , they were hopping mad ! with I was so mad with him for doing it ! In fact , in all the time she had known him , she had never heard him swear before . He must be absolutely mad with her . at ` Oh , Mum , of course I'm not mad at you . I was mad about her being killed , mad at whoever killed her . hurried and frantic Quiet weekend on the way now. The last few weekends were a bit mad . Sorry that this is long overdue - life has been a bit mad since we got back from honeymoon - but we really did want to thank you and the band for a wonderful evening 's entertainment on our wedding day .What seems to work is violence and money , and all political parties are engaged in a mad race to maximise the use of both . rush dash scramble They both stopped work too , and there was a silent time , broken only by Tony's mad rush to find his camera and tripod . Only a mad dash got them to the meeting on time . In 1999 , the industry launched a mad scramble to catch up with the cyberworld . -mad obsessed with the specified thing Robert is a sports mad young man say his family . He's also a sex-mad womaniser whose extra-marital affairs constantly threaten to ruin his parliamentary career . ` Yes , buying clothes , she's clothes mad' .She put the receiver down quickly as if to stop me from asking anything else about her illness , and it reminded me sharply of my Aunt Viv , bright , spirited and horse mad to the end . Imagine talking to eight and nine-year-olds about boyfriends , I ask you . They are all man mad ! drive sb mad make sb upset, angry or bored A couple of months ago , Adrian drove me mad for an entire afternoon , being cryptic about a surprise he 'd arranged . Personally , I have found keeping these sensitive fish can nearly drive you mad. Far from being restful they are very demanding , needing almost constant attention Their accents alone were enough to drive anyone mad . He was now involved in a dreary radio serial , which was driving him slowly mad with boredom . get mad with sb get mad at sb get angry with sb I would get mad when I put the phone down and cry a lot , but certainly I wouldn't get mad with her . ' Please read it and do n't get mad at me . I never saw any of the stuff that goes on in our courtrooms where lawyers get mad at each other , " Blockman said . go mad become insane Ophelia is often ignored for audition material simply because she doesn't seem to have much in the way of a sustained speech until she goes mad . ( He subsequently went mad and threw himself in front of a car . ) Being Irish herself , and the sister of a man who had gone mad with syphilis , she was rather more tolerant of Warnie's foibles than he was of hers .That is , under no circumstances must I mention to anyone that I have turned down an invitation to return to Blighty . They would really believe that I had gone completely mad. Stuck in the middle of the Oxfordshire countryside with hundreds of noisy incomprehensible children and colleagues who make me feel about as comfortable as a walk in the rain . I must have gone stark raving madto start behaving in a violent and uncontrollable way I looked into the alleyway and saw the dogs going mad . One had him by one arm and the other his other arm Wind shaved over the new grass near Faith Lavender 's grave , and Dorothea Shottery's cat went mad on the back lawn , leaping , rolling , falling over its own paws . Caspar had gone mad , leaping all over the beet and sending it rolling . to become excited London went mad ; everyone flocked to hear her , to see her , so young , so seemingly innocent yet passionate , with her long brown hair hanging down her back beneath the small round cap , her slight frame clad in a simple white gown which fell straight to the boards . Then the applause started going a bit mad , and into my view came Tony Pappano , Waltraud Meier , and Plácido Domingo . The crowd went mad with excitement . to lose one's temper They'll go mad . They won't stand for it ` Look at that mess ! Our Mam'll go mad! ' ` Mr Bishop'll go mad when he sees this lot . ' to splash out, to be extravagant Sam found himself wondering if perhaps it might be best to save some of the money instead of going mad . But how much should you spend on a deck ? Once you have heard the likes of Linn , Roksan and Pink Triangle in action , it is easy to go madand find yourself coveting deck / arm / cartridge combinations costing over £ 2,000 God you've gone mad with the sugar in yours . to get really bored and frustrated I thought I should go mad if my brother did not come home at the appointed hour , for I longed to thrust it into his hands . ` Oh , don't be rotten , ' said Dolly , ` I'll go mad if I ' ave to lie on that bed any more today . gone mad used after a noun to say that sth has been taken to extremes Luckily , this example of bureaucracy gone mad was stopped just in time by Kenneth Clarke , who was watching cricket at Trent Bridge and got a call on his mobile phone about Johan 's case . There is no doubt that some people , myself included , regarded it as superstition gone madmad and felt that it was making a laughing stock of the Church and of religious belief . An outraged O. said : " I think this is political correctness gone mad ". like mad a lot I'm crying like mad now -- I just can 't stop . My teeth are chattering like mad . She's calling to a little dog which is running after summat with his tail wagging like mad . All these people are watching us and clapping like mad cos they 're so happy and proud of us . mad about sb in love with sbHe is still mad about Pandora . Stephen's mad about you . ' We were madabout each other . mad about/on sth keen on sthBorn in Bournemouth two years after the Battle of the Bulge Bruce has always been a bit mad about cars . 'My grandmother's mad about men , ' she added . ` I like the shirt . I'm not mad about the tie but it's quite smart . 'For a runner who's mad on computers this is his " dream job " . Well I'm not so mad on the British film industry . mad as a hatter completely crazy