加拿大作家托马斯•哈利伯顿(Thomas Haliburton)在其故事集The Clockmaker (1837)(《钟表匠》,也作The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville)中使用了mad as a hatter,这也是这个短语第一次出现在文学作品中:"Sister Sall...walked out of the room, as...