midsummer madness
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[edit]Noun
[edit]midsummer madness (uncountable)
- Madness attributable to the heat of summer, or to the midsummer moon.
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
- Why this is very midsummer madness.
- 1959, Isaac Asimov, “All the Troubles of the World”, in Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the Near Future, →OCLC, page 160:
- "Madness. Midsummer madness," muttered Gulliman.