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as mad as a cut snake

as mad as a cut snake is the alternative form of mad as a cut snake.

Meaning of mad as a cut snake

Adjective

mad as a cut snake (not comparable)

  1. (Australia, colloquial, simile) Very irate, crazy with rage.
    • I′m feeling slightly less furious than I was earlier, but I′m still about as mad as a cut snake.2005, Melody Carlson, Fool's Gold: Color Me Consumed, unnumbered page
  2. (Australia, colloquial, simile) Crazy; eccentric.
    • “Trackless,” Sean muttered, “there′s a man over there planting a chopstick.″
      “Him? That′s Lurker. Mad as a cut snake.”1986, Mike Shanley, Strela, unnumbered page

Questions about as mad as a cut snake

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Words near as mad as a cut snake in the dictionary

  1. as like as not
  2. as likely as not
  3. as long as
  4. as luck may have it
  5. as luck would have it
  6. as mad as a cut snake
  7. as memory serves
  8. as much
  9. as much again
  10. as much as
  11. as much as possible

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