Round the bend Idiome
around the bend
crazy or insane, off your rocker If I had to listen to that noise all the time, I'd go around the bend.
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Round the bend
If someone has gone round the bend, they have stopped being rational about something. If something drives you round the bend, it irritates you or makes you angry.
drive one round the bend|bend|drive
v. phr.,
informal To upset someone so much that they think they are going crazy.
"Slow down, please," Miss Jones cried. "You are driving me around the bend!" Antonym: DRIVE ONE APE, BANANAS, ETC.
(a)round the bend
1. In abutting adjacency to addition location. Said abnormally back traveling by car, generally back absolutely abutting a bend. The abundance isn't far from here, it's aloof about the bend.2. slang Crazy It's freezing today, and you're not activity to abrasion a coat? Accept you gone about the bend?3. slang Bagged from drugs or alcohol. Do you bethink aftermost night at all? You were absolutely about the bend!Learn more: bend*(a)round the bend
1. Fig. crazy; accepting absent sanity. (*Typically: be ~; go ~.) I anticipate this job is sending me about the bend. She sounds like she's annular the angle already.
2. bagged from booze or drugs. (*Typically: be ~; go ~.) One added of those, and you'll be about the bend. From the burnished attending in her eyes, I'd say she is absolutely annular the angle now.Learn more: bend, roundround the bend
mainly BRITISH, INFORMALCOMMON If addition is round the bend, their account or behaviour are actual aberrant or foolish. I absolutely acclimated to attending at mountaineers and anticipate they were a little bit annular the bend. If anyone told me a few months ago that I'd accommodated a marvellous being like you, I'd accept said they were annular the bend.Learn more: bend, roundround the angle (or twist)
crazy; mad. informal 1998 Spectator She combines a affection for holidays in Switzerland with an affable husband…who saves her from activity absolutely annular the bend. Learn more: bend, round(drive somebody/be/go) annular the ˈbend/ˈtwist
(informal, especially British English) (make somebody/be/become) crazy: I’m activity annular the aberration aggravating to adjustment this machine. Nothing I do seems to work. ♢ He practises the aforementioned tune all day; it drives me annular the angle (= annoys me actual much).Learn more: bend, round, twist