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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 “insane”); up the wall alludes to climbing the walls to escape and to drink to imbibing alcohol to induce oblivion.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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