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method in one's madness
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An underlying purpose in crazy behavior, as in Harry takes seemingly random trips around the country but there's method to his madness鈥攈e's checking on real estate values . This expression comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet (2:2): 鈥淭hough this be madness, yet there is method in it.鈥 For a modern equivalent, see crazy like a fox .Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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