What does this phrase mean Crazy as a peach orchard boar?

Answer 1

Well, isn't that just a delightful phrase? It means someone or something is acting in a wild or unpredictable manner, much like a boar running through a peach orchard. Just imagine the chaos and energy that image brings to mind! It's important to appreciate the unique and lively aspects of life, just like those boars enjoying the peach orchard.

Answer 2

I have had personal experience with a variant of this phrase, and I believe the origin is very similar. Peaches are very sweet when they fall to the ground. Very sweet fruit in contact with all the 'wild' yeasts present on the ground begins to ferment very quickly and continues until virtually all the fruit has finished fermenting. In the Okanagan Valley in Canada, my Grandfather used to say; "goofy as a deadfallen jaybird" when the bluejays would stagger over to the well for a drink of water... (Eating cherry deadfall being thirsty work)...Gramma could usually catch the first one, but, sometimes we had to 'fish' them out with a net on a looong bamboo before covering the well with a steel-wire grid. I'm betting your boars were in a similar 'condition'. Also, I'll bet boars were a lot tougher to Dodge than a drunk jaybird!!!

Answer 3

Drunk on fermenting peaches