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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a raving thing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is wildly enthusiastic or irrational, often in a negative context.
Example: "After the shocking news, he became a raving thing, shouting and gesticulating wildly in the street."
Alternatives: "a mad thing" or "a crazy thing".
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"It's not like my mother is a maniac or a raving thing.
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My wife agrees with me that David Gregory really needs to just start using his normal speaking voice when he cuts his intros, instead of this weird, excitable, hysterical raving thing that he does.
It was a small thing but they turned a raving fan into someone who, if not exactly disgruntled, would think twice about recommending them to friends and colleagues.
There are people being punched in the head, people being punched in the back, and at least one guy who gets wrestled to the ground in the middle of the whole thing and stomped by a raving throng of groupies.
But I was a raving leftie.
All trivia became momentous, my faintest desire a raving hunger.
I mean 50 years ago he would have been a raving communist".
And I can be a raving, stark mad maniac".
I wrote him a raving fan letter and a month later he was dead.
And yet, we should not be too quick to label Katidis as a raving fascist.
Stanley turned out to be, in the parlance of the day, a raving lunatic.
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