mainly American, informal

upset and nervous because you have been in one place for too long.

It's no wonder she's going stir-crazy, shut in that tiny house all day with three young children.

• beat someone at own game
• beat someone at their own game
• beat someone down
• beat someone hands down
• beat someone hollow
• be at someone's beck and call
• beat someone's brains out
• beat someone to a pulp
• beat someone to it
• beat someone to the punch
• beat someone to within an inch of life
• beat someone to within an inch of their life
• beat someone up
• beat swords into ploughshares
• be at the bottom of
• be at the bottom of something
• beat the bushes
• beat the daylights out of
• beat the daylights out of someone
• beat the drum
• be at the end of tether
• be at the end of your tether
• beat the hell out of
• beat the hell out of someone
• beat the hell out of something