英语词组drive up the wall是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

drive (one) up the wall

To annoy or frustrate one to the point of exasperation. A week on vacation with my relatives is enough to drive me up the wall. That loud beeping noise is driving me up the wall!

drive someone up the wall

Fig. to annoy or irritate someone. Stop whistling that tune. You're driving me up the wall. All his talk about moving to California nearly drove me up the wall.

drive/send somebody up the ˈwall

(informal) make somebody very annoyed; drive somebody crazy: That noise is driving me up the wall.

drive (someone) up the wall, to

To harry someone to the point of mad desperation. The image here is forcing a person to escape a pest by literally climbing up and over a wall. An earlier version was to drive to the wall, the wall being as far as one could go to escape. It dates from the sixteenth century. “I am in this matter euen at the harde walle, and se not how to go further,” wrote Sir Thomas More (1557). The current cliché dates from the twentieth century, and probably comes from the behavior of an addict deprived of drugs or alcohol who actually tries to climb the walls of a room or cell in desperation (see also drive to drink). However, it is most often used to express exasperation at being “driven crazy”: “‘Mad as a hatter,’ said Gillian Soames complacently. ‘Stark raving bonkers. Up the wall. Round the twist’” (Robert Barnard, Death and the Chaste Apprentice, 1989).

词组	drive up the wall
释义	Idiom drive up the walldrive (someone) up the wall informal to make someone very angry or very bored. I was being driven up the wall by their silly chatter.Working in a factory would have driven me up the wall. drive (one) up the wall To annoy or frustrate one to the point of exasperation. A week on vacation with my relatives is enough to drive me up the wall. That loud beeping noise is driving me up the wall! drive someone up the wall Fig. to annoy or irritate someone. Stop whistling that tune. You're driving me up the wall. All his talk about moving to California nearly drove me up the wall. drive/send somebody up the ˈwall (informal) make somebody very annoyed; drive somebody crazy: That noise is driving me up the wall. drive (someone) up the wall, to To harry someone to the point of mad desperation. The image here is forcing a person to escape a pest by literally climbing up and over a wall. An earlier version was to drive to the wall, the wall being as far as one could go to escape. It dates from the sixteenth century. “I am in this matter euen at the harde walle, and se not how to go further,” wrote Sir Thomas More (1557). The current cliché dates from the twentieth century, and probably comes from the behavior of an addict deprived of drugs or alcohol who actually tries to climb the walls of a room or cell in desperation (see also drive to drink). However, it is most often used to express exasperation at being “driven crazy”: “‘Mad as a hatter,’ said Gillian Soames complacently. ‘Stark raving bonkers. Up the wall. Round the twist’” (Robert Barnard, Death and the Chaste Apprentice, 1989).
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