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minus-squareovercast5348@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·8 months agoIs this the origin story of The Mad Hatter? 🙄
minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 months agoCould have been. I know Lewis Carroll liked to lampoon issues of the day in his writing.
minus-squareXTL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoI’m kind of guessing the mad as a hatter phenomenon was known then, but don’t really know.
minus-squareSPRUNT@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months 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.