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What (who) is hare-brained - definition
SPECIES OF MAMMAL
Lepus timidus; Blue hare; Irish Hare; White Hare; Variable Hare; Blue Hare; Alpine Hare; Alpine hare; Irish Mountain Hare; Mountain Hare; Snow hare; Irish hare; Mountain hares
![[[European hare]] (above) compared with a mountain hare](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Common and irish hare.jpg?width=200 "[[European hare]] (above) compared with a mountain hare")
 Lepus timidus.jpg?width=200 "Skeleton")
hare-brained
also harebrained
You use hare-brained to describe a scheme or theory which you consider to be very foolish and which you think is unlikely to be successful or true.
This isn't the first hare-brained scheme he's had.
= crackpot
ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]
hare-brained
a.
Rash, reckless, headlong, heedless, careless, wild, unsteady, giddy, volatile, flighty, giddy-brained, harum-scarum.
hare-brained
¦ adjective rash; ill-judged.
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Mountain hare
The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare, and Irish hare, is a Palearctic hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats.
Examples of use of hare-brained
1. India does not share these diabolical US policy objectives and hare–brained dogmas.
2. We trust their lordships will give the same short shrift to this latest hare–brained scheme.
3. The New York art scene of Smithson‘s time was grittier, angrier and more open to all sorts of splendid, hare–brained, homegrown schemes, of which Smithson had plenty.
4. The Japanese reactionaries should immediately stop hare–brained plot–breeding, pondering over the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by its policy for military hegemony.
5. The hare–brained idea is that offenders are more likely to respond to punishments handed down by their own age–group than to listen to grown–up magistrates.