Comment on brilliant as silver

• spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could have been. I know Lewis Carroll liked to lampoon issues of the day in his writing.

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• SPRUNT@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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