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minus-square@overcast5348@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish12•1 year agoIs this the origin story of The Mad Hatter? 🙄
minus-square@spittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoCould have been. I know Lewis Carroll liked to lampoon issues of the day in his writing.
minus-squareTXLlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoI’m kind of guessing the mad as a hatter phenomenon was known then, but don’t really know.
minus-square@SPRUNT@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoI think the original idiom was “mad as a hatter” which was eventually shortened to “mad hatter”, possibly due to the Alice in Wonderland character.
Is this the origin story of The Mad Hatter? 🙄
Could have been. I know Lewis Carroll liked to lampoon issues of the day in his writing.
I’m kind of guessing the mad as a hatter phenomenon was known then, but don’t really know.
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.