mad for it
(UK, Ireland, informal) Exceedingly eager, or having a keen desire or appetite for something.
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(UK, Ireland, informal) Exceedingly eager, or having a keen desire or appetite for something.
Glenereegan is to be sold to the highest bidder to-day.I'm tould - It's Pether Byrne that dhrives Bianconi's car that tould me - that a smalpeen of a Dublin attorney is mad for it.
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