stir crazy

Related to stir crazy: Treehouse

stir-crazy

Acutely anxious, restless, irritable, irrational, and/or depressed from remaining for too long in an unstimulating, confined, and/or isolated environment. "Stir" in this usage is a slang word for prison. We thought taking our family vacation in a tiny cottage out in the country would be a nice break from city life, but we all went a bit stir-crazy after a few days. The doctor said I need to remain in bed as much as possible, but I'll go stir-crazy if I can't get out of the house at least once a day.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

stir crazy

mod. anxious and mentally disturbed from being confined, as in prison. (see also stir.) I was going stir crazy in my little room, so I moved to a bigger place.
See also: crazy, stir
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • stir-crazy
  • go stir-crazy
  • cabin fever
  • joe job
  • go bonkers
  • go zonkers
  • cat on a hot tin roof, like a
  • set (one's) back up
  • gritchy
  • (one's) back is up
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But we had a bit of down time and it was good to get out for an hour, instead of going stir crazy in the hotel," he added.
Stir Crazy THIS 1980 comedy was one of several that aimed to cast Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in a kind of interracial Bob Hope and Bing Crosby movie partnership for the modern age, except with four-letter words.
I get a little stir crazy if I don't have something to do so I have continued to work.
We got quite close last season and Jagielka determined not to go stir crazy are even closer this season already.
The other day I got stir crazy, walked into a kebab house and just followed the meat round and round on the spit, trying to take the occasional bite.
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"Richard Pryor has a real comic flair, and in Stir Crazy he plays a kind of cross between the Good Soldier Schweik and the loser-with-an-instinct-for-survival who starred in Seven Beauties."
And there were two pairings with Gene Wilder, "Silver Streak" and "Stir Crazy," filled with neurasthenic gyrations.
Wells' Dairy has teamed with the 7-Eleven chain to create Stir Crazy, which is being described as "the first stirrable soft-serve treat available in the freezer case, complete with its own mix-ins." The new product, in development for three years, is available exclusively at participating 7-Eleven stores.
The scene is surveyed with amiable irony and a tolerance for different life-choices (Boswell writes well about a strip club in "Stir Crazy," a difficult challenge).
In one of his not-for-network-TV routines, Richard Pryor stops in the midst of a stream of dirty jokes and talks pensively about his film, Stir Crazy. To prepare for their roles as men unjustly thrown behind bars, Pryor says, he and Gene Wilder spent time with convicts from an Arizona penitentiary.
So I said, 'I need to build structure into this otherwise I'll go stir crazy'.