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.