- an animal like a large rabbit with very strong back legs, that can run very fast see also jugged hareTopics Animalsc1Oxford Collocations DictionaryHare is used after these nouns:
- mountain
Word OriginOld English hara, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch haas and German Hase.
Idioms
See hare in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary(as) mad as a hatter/a March hare
- (informal) (of a person) with crazy ideas or behaviour; very sillyMore Like This Similes in idiomsSimiles in idioms
- (as) bald as a coot
- (as) blind as a bat
- (as) bright as a button
- (as) bold as brass
- as busy as a bee
- as clean as a whistle
- (as) dead as a/the dodo
- (as) deaf as a post
- (as) dull as ditchwater
- (as) fit as a fiddle
- as flat as a pancake
- (as) good as gold
- (as) mad as a hatter/a March hare
- (as) miserable/ugly as sin
- as old as the hills
- (as) pleased/proud as Punch
- as pretty as a picture
- (as) regular as clockwork
- (as) quick as a flash
- (as) safe as houses
- (as) sound as a bell
- (as) steady as a rock
- (as) thick as two short planks
- (as) tough as old boots
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