drive (you) to distraction

to cause you to be unable to think or work.

That constant buzzing noise is driving me to distraction.

Usage notes: sometimes used in the form do something to distraction - to be unable to think of anything else: It is obvious that he loves her to distraction.

Related vocabulary: drive you up the wall

• grab by the throat
• grab you by the throat
• grain of truth
• grand old man of
• grand old man of something
• grasp at straws
• grasping at straws
• grasp the nettle
• grass is always greener .
• grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
• grass-roots
• grass roots
• grass widow
• grate on nerves
• grate on someone's nerves
• graveyard shift
• gravy train
• grease palm
• grease someone's palm
• greasy pole
• greasy spoon
• great and the good
• great deal
• great deal of
• great deal of something