bend
bend someone's ear talk to someone, especially with great eagerness or in order to ask a favour. informal
bend your elbow drink alcohol. North American See also lift your elbowatelbow.
bend the knee: see bow the knee atbow.
bend over backwards: seebackwards.
round the bend (or twist) crazy; mad. informal
2010Eye Weekly (Toronto) The director of The Wages of Fear and Diabolique set out to portray the madness of a hotelier driven round the bend by suspicions of his wife's infidelity.