"mad as a fish" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2006, Damon Hammond, Totally Steaming: A Year on HMS Fearless, page 202",
          "text": "Voluble, almost incomprehensible, mad as a fish and perpetually drunk.",
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          "ref": "2006, Lou Bellamy, Haunting the Dead, page 38",
          "text": "The only one I'm scared of is that Eliza Cooper. Mad as a fish that one.",
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          "ref": "2007, Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue",
          "text": "I've got a station chief who's as mad as a fish, an incomplete briefing, and a gambling-obsessed billionaire to out-bluff.",
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          "ref": "2008, Andy Taylor, Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran",
          "text": "Sean, the older brother, was as mad as a fish, but he was also the one with the brains and together they were a very entrepreneurial family.",
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        "Demented, crazy."
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        "(slang) Demented, crazy."
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