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Idioms and Phrases
Also, drive someone mad or bananas or bonkers or nuts or up the wall ; drive someone to drink . Greatly exasperate someone, annoy to distraction. For example, His habitual lateness drives me crazy , or Apologizing over and over drives me bananas , or These slovenly workmen drive me up the wall , or Your nagging is driving me to drink . All of these hyperbolic expressions describe a person's extreme frustration, supposedly to the point of insanity ( crazy, mad, nuts, bonkers , and bananas all mean 鈥渋nsane鈥); up the wall alludes to climbing the walls to escape and to drink to imbibing alcohol to induce oblivion.Discover More
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"Someone always telling you you鈥檙e crazy can drive someone crazy," he began in a lengthy caption going after "liberals" he believes "have tried to discredit me for 20 years."
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It鈥檚 enough to drive someone crazy.
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And if you repeat you have to drive someone crazy.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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