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drive (one) insane

To annoy or frustrate one to the point of exasperation. The kids were driving me insane, so I made them go outside and play.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

drive someone crazy

 and drive someone insane; drive someone mad 
1. . Lit. to force someone into a state of insanity or mental instability. The sound of the wind howling drove me crazy. The dog's constant barking drove me insane.
2. Fig. to annoy or irritate someone. This itch is driving me crazy. All these telephone calls are driving me mad.
See also: crazy, drive
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

drive somebody inˈsane

make somebody more and more angry or irritated, especially over a long period of time: This job is driving me insane.
See also: drive, insane, somebody
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • drive somebody insane
  • drive (one) insane
  • drive (one) mad
  • drive (someone) mad
  • have straws in (one's) hair
  • straws in your hair
  • loon
  • frighten (one) out of (one's) wits
  • frighten one out of wits
  • frighten/scare somebody out of their wits
References in periodicals archive
Where a defendant is found not guilty of an offence because he was insane at the time, whether in the legal sense or the medical sense, the court's powers are very limited.
But I went on last night and it was insane to see the response from back home.
"It will drive the contractors insane, morale will become so poor that he will quit or become insolvent."
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Insane Realm Radio's goal for the Metal Madness Marathon is to raise awareness for the Sophie Lancaster Foundation.
The Cape Colony was in the most ways faced with a chronic shortage of accommodation for the insane. This meant that asylums worked closely with jails and hospitals to provide temporary accommodation for patients until they could be transferred to an asylum.
The wonderful world of Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) rolls into the O2 Academy on Friday night, from 7pm.
Testamentary incapacity, undue influence, and insane delusions are recurring doctrines in the context of an impaired, weakened, or confused individual leaving a will, the validity of which comes under question.
SHUTTER ISLAND Channel 4, 9pm A US marshal, traumatised by his past, heads to a hospital for the criminally insane on a remote island to investigate the disappearance of a woman who murdered her children.
That overcrowding, here and in many asylums of the time, gave rise to great concern about the treatment of the insane. A second building was begun in 1870 on Belmont Street, with a building plan specifically designed to facilitate better care.
Global Banking News-February 6, 2015--US analyst says blanket guarantee was 'insane'
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"Madwoman in the Attic" is an installation that examines insane, female protagonists from 19th Century novels.
INSANE FIGHT CLUB (11.05pm BBC One) THERE'S a very different side of Scotland on view in this documentary about Glasgow's Insane Championship Wrestling scene.