| 单词 | mad hatter |
| 释义 | Definition of mad hatter in English:mad hatternoun
OriginEarly 20th century; earliest use found in The Westminster Gazette. After the name of the eccentric host at the ‘mad tea-party’ in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; in this, and in the phrase mad as a hatter, the allusion is to the effects of mercury poisoning sometimes formerly suffered by hat-makers as a result of the use of mercurous nitrate in the manufacture of felt hats. Definition of mad hatter in US English:mad hatternoun
OriginEarly 20th century; earliest use found in The Westminster Gazette. After the name of the eccentric host at the ‘mad tea-party’ in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; in this, and in the phrase mad as a hatter, the allusion is to the effects of mercury poisoning sometimes formerly suffered by hat-makers as a result of the use of mercurous nitrate in the manufacture of felt hats. |
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