I think the original idiom was “mad as a hatter” which was eventually shortened to “mad hatter”, possibly due to the Alice in Wonderland character.
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overcast5348@lemmy.world 3 months agoIs this the origin story of The Mad Hatter? 🙄
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spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Could have been. I know Lewis Carroll liked to lampoon issues of the day in his writing.