snaky

drive (one) snaky

To cause one to act impulsively or without restraint. Alcohol has driven many a man snaky, so you're not the only one who has ever made a questionable decision while inebriated.
See also: drive, snaky

go snaky

To act impulsively or without restraint. Primarily heard in Canada. Alcohol has caused many a man to go snaky, so you're not the only one who has ever made a questionable decision while inebriated.
See also: go, snaky
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

go (or drive someone) snaky

lose (or cause someone to lose) their self-control. Canadian
See also: go, snaky
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • 1FTR
  • as one man
  • drive (one) out of office
  • force (one) out of office
  • force out of office
  • give (one) (one's) head
  • give head
  • give somebody their head
  • give someone their head
  • cooking for one
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The number of cars parked near the bazaar and the ones carting passengers through the snaky defiles and over the beds of sparkling rivulets has grown manifold.
Snaky sinuous rilles are thought to be old lavariver beds or collapsed lava tubes.
Set dough on a wooden cutting board and cut into snaky strips about as fat as your fingers.
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While those Ethiopian records favored snaky horns and creeping bass lines, Mali's Iba Diabate is all sun and glitter, stop-start guitar and gorgeously loose vocals.
The Creek, a snaky sliver of waterway that winds its way inland for about 12 miles from the Arabian Gulf, was Dubai's soul and lifeline; it was also the gateway, the boundary of Dubai's small world.
The good thing is, ranged against this anti- human conglomeration, against these fifty shades of black is a critical mass of people, mostly urban, by no means all young, but all somewhere young at heart, people who will resist this creeping Talibanisation, this snaky and vicious Khomeinisation of India's cities.
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From here, the snaky paths eventually lose their definition as one descends into the depths of Wadi el-Deleb.
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Never mind the rebels, and all those snaky ex-ministers who chose to defect as soon as the going got tough.
Women black or white with snaky tresses, field hands with huge erections, hatchet-faced overseers, little kids engaged in unspeakable acts.
Lourie came of age as the civil rights movement began to roil the South's snaky political waters.