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drive someone up the wall
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drive someone up the wall (third-person singular simple present drives someone up the wall, present participle driving someone up the wall, simple past drove someone up the wall, past participle driven someone up the wall)
- (idiomatic) To make a person very angry or frustrated; to infuriate.
- Her persistent nagging and constant bickering with me nearly drove me up the wall.
- 1998 September 18, Charles Taylor, “Hong Kong Hollywood”, in Salon, archived from the original on 6 May 2008:
- There is nothing and no one that's going to shut him up. That's what makes [Chris] Tucker funny. It's also what can drive you up the wall about him.
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