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6 February, 11:34

What does it mean to be 'as mad as a hatter'?

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  1. 6 February, 14:57
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    In the 16th and 17th Centuries, the process of manufacturing and repairing hats

    by hand involved the use of liquid concoctions containing substantial quantities

    of lead and mercury, with the result that "hatters" ... the people who worked at the

    trade of hats ... routinely became mentally incompetent and hallucinatory after

    breathing all that stuff on their jobs for decades.

    "Mad as a hatter" means that you/he and/or your/his ideas are as unreasonable,

    irrational, unpredictable, undependable, ludicrous etc. as if you/he had been

    hand-making hats for a living.

    Pretty scary stuff. But that's what it was like for the common people trying to earn

    a living in the cities a few Centuries ago.
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