raving mad

Frequency: 4.01.0 per million words

talking or behaving in a wild and uncontrolled way (informal)

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Examples (20)

  • You must be stark raving mad to risk your money like that!
  • He's raving mad; don't argue with him right now.
  • By the end of the meeting, he was shouting at everyone like he'd gone raving mad.
  • The crowd went raving mad when the underdogs scored.
  • The old man was wandering the streets, raving mad and talking to himself.
  • This heat is driving me raving mad.
  • People thought the inventor was raving mad until his machine actually worked.
  • She sounded raving mad on the phone last night.
  • She was driven raving mad by the constant noise from the construction site.
  • If you think that's a good idea, you're raving mad.
  • You'd have to be raving mad to go out in this blizzard without a coat.
  • By the end of the week, we were all raving mad from the delays.
  • The prisoner was acting raving mad, pacing his cell and screaming.
  • He must be raving mad to quit without another job lined up.
  • My boss went raving mad when he saw the sales figures for this quarter.
  • The conspiracy theorist seemed raving mad to the reporters.
  • The character in the play descends into a state of being raving mad after the betrayal.
  • They called her raving mad after the outburst, but she later apologized.
  • He's not just eccentric; his neighbors believe he is completely raving mad.
  • Don't keep poking the bear—it'll send him raving mad.