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round the bend; around the bend
adjective
mad, crazy; eccentric UK, 1929
Probably a naval coinage, widespread by the mid-C20.- You are trying to drive me round the bend, with your mumbo jumbo. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 199, 1956
- It’s a wonder we haven’t all gone round the bend, the way things are in this set up. — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], pp. 83–84, 1959
- You’re round the bloody bend. That’s your trouble. — Geoff Brown, I Want What I Want, p. 71, 1966
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