all over the place like a mad woman's custard

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all over the place like a mad woman's custard

  1. (colloquial, simile) Moving about randomly.
    • 1959, D'Arcy Niland, Woman from the country, page 212:
      In the end he was blood from head to hocks and all over the place like a mad woman's custard.
    • 2010 January 27, Roger Perkins, “The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman: review”, in The Telegraph:
      The story, though, is all over the place, like mad woman’s custard.
    • 2012, Jim Mcloughlin, David Gibb, One Common Enemy: The Laconia Incident: A Survivor's Memoir, →ISBN:
      I was all over the place like a mad woman's custard.