"mad as a cut snake" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "2005, Melody Carlson, Fool's Gold: Color Me Consumed, unnumbered page",
          "text": "I′m feeling slightly less furious than I was earlier, but I′m still about as mad as a cut snake.",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Robert Sims, Tropic of Death, page 346",
          "text": "Sutcliffe went in hard, did everything to provoke him. Got him as mad as a cut snake.",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Kate Hoffmann, Harlequin Blaze: The Mighty Quinns: Callum, unnumbered page",
          "text": "“Dad would be mad as a cut snake if he knew what you were doing,” Cal warned. “He hates Harry Fraser. All the Frasers.”",
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          "text": "2010, Stuart Gibbs, Belly Up, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, page 192,\n“ […] I know he wasn′t exactly Prince Charming, but for someone to kill him—at my very own zoo, no less—well, it makes me mad as a cut snake.”"
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          "ref": "2010, Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest, page 129",
          "text": "[…]Mad as a cut snake, he was. Good thing he didn′t have a gun. He′d a shot all three of the blokes and the snake too. Probably shot me just for laughing.",
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        "Very irate, crazy with rage."
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        "(Australia, simile, colloquial) Very irate, crazy with rage."
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          "ref": "1986, Mike Shanley, Strela, unnumbered page",
          "text": "“Trackless,” Sean muttered, “there′s a man over there planting a chopstick.″\n“Him? That′s Lurker. Mad as a cut snake.”",
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          "ref": "2000, Thomas Keneally, Bettany′s Book, page 9",
          "text": "‘I have to tell you,’ he continued with his leaden and yet fascinating sincerity, ‘that you are a most exquisite and intelligent woman and I would like to court you. I′m no seducer or casual fornicator. It′s against my religion. If all this sounds mad as a cut snake, so be it. I was under necessity to say it. Would you accept my card?’",
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          "ref": "2003, David Geary, A Man of the People, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, page 69",
          "text": "— Did you see him perform?\n— From the wings. Some Coward, a smidge of Richard the Third. Then R and J, with his missus, Vivian Leigh. Mad as a cut snake, but a wonderful actress.",
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          "ref": "2010, Kate Jennings, Trouble: Evolution of a Radical, Selected Writings 1970-2010, page 70",
          "text": "What made her attractive was that she was cerebral as well as beautiful, a rare combination in movies, then as now. She was also as mad as a cut snake, which only added to her allure. In retrospect, I′d call her an el primo flake.",
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        "Crazy; eccentric."
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        "(Australia, simile, colloquial) Crazy; eccentric."
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          "word": "mad as a meat axe"
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          "text": "I′m feeling slightly less furious than I was earlier, but I′m still about as mad as a cut snake.",
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        },
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Kate Hoffmann, Harlequin Blaze: The Mighty Quinns: Callum, unnumbered page",
          "text": "“Dad would be mad as a cut snake if he knew what you were doing,” Cal warned. “He hates Harry Fraser. All the Frasers.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "2010, Stuart Gibbs, Belly Up, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, page 192,\n“ […] I know he wasn′t exactly Prince Charming, but for someone to kill him—at my very own zoo, no less—well, it makes me mad as a cut snake.”"
        },
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          "ref": "2010, Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest, page 129",
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          "ref": "1986, Mike Shanley, Strela, unnumbered page",
          "text": "“Trackless,” Sean muttered, “there′s a man over there planting a chopstick.″\n“Him? That′s Lurker. Mad as a cut snake.”",
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Thomas Keneally, Bettany′s Book, page 9",
          "text": "‘I have to tell you,’ he continued with his leaden and yet fascinating sincerity, ‘that you are a most exquisite and intelligent woman and I would like to court you. I′m no seducer or casual fornicator. It′s against my religion. If all this sounds mad as a cut snake, so be it. I was under necessity to say it. Would you accept my card?’",
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          "ref": "2003, David Geary, A Man of the People, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, page 69",
          "text": "— Did you see him perform?\n— From the wings. Some Coward, a smidge of Richard the Third. Then R and J, with his missus, Vivian Leigh. Mad as a cut snake, but a wonderful actress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Kate Jennings, Trouble: Evolution of a Radical, Selected Writings 1970-2010, page 70",
          "text": "What made her attractive was that she was cerebral as well as beautiful, a rare combination in movies, then as now. She was also as mad as a cut snake, which only added to her allure. In retrospect, I′d call her an el primo flake.",
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