drive/send sb round the bend
UK informalDefinition
C2 to make someone very bored or very angry: My mother's been driving me round the bend. Staying at home all day was driving her round the bend.Causing feelings of anger and displeasureBore and bored
(Definition of drive/send sb round the bend from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- banal adjective
- be stuck in a groove idiom
- bore the ass off sb idiom
- bore verb (FAIL TO INTEREST)
- bored adjective
- bored stiff idiom
- get itchy feet idiom
- go off the boil idiom
- in a rut idiom
- languid adjective
- listless adjective
- outgrow verb (AGE)
- pall verb
- tire of sth/sb phrasal verb
- tired adjective (NOT INTERESTING)
- underemployed adjective
- underwhelmed adjective
- uninspired adjective
- weary verb
- you should get out more idiom
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Bore and bored
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