(a)round the bend Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
(a)round the bend
1. In close proximity to another location. Said especially when traveling by car, often when literally approaching a bend. The store isn't far from here, it's just around the bend.2. slang Crazy It's freezing today, and you're not going to wear a coat? Have you gone around the bend?3. slang Intoxicated from drugs or alcohol. Do you remember last night at all? You were really around the bend!See also: bend*(a)round the bend
1. Fig. crazy; having lost sanity. (*Typically: be ~; go ~.) I think this job is sending me around the bend. She sounds like she's round the bend already.
2. intoxicated from alcohol or drugs. (*Typically: be ~; go ~.) One more of those, and you'll be around the bend. From the glassy look in her eyes, I'd say she is completely round the bend now.See also: bend, round
around the bend
1. Around a curve or corner on a road or pathway, as in Peter's house is just around the bend. Also see around the corner, def. 1.
2. Also, round the bend. Crazy, insane, as in Throwing out that perfectly good steak? Have you gone round the bend? [Colloquial; early 1900s] See also: around, bend
round the bend
mainly BRITISH, INFORMALCOMMON If someone is round the bend, their ideas or behaviour are very strange or foolish. I actually used to look at mountaineers and think they were a little bit round the bend. If anyone told me a few months ago that I'd meet a marvellous person like you, I'd have said they were round the bend.See also: bend, roundround the bend (or twist)
crazy; mad. informal 1998 Spectator She combines a fondness for holidays in Switzerland with an amiable husbandwho saves her from going completely round the bend. See also: bend, round(a)round the bend
1. mod. crazy; beyond sanity. I think Im going around the bend.
2. mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. From the look in her eye, Id say she is completely round the bend now. See also: around, bend
round the bend
verbSee around the bendSee also: bend, roundaround the bend
Slang Mentally deranged; crazy.See also: around, bend- around the bend
- round the bend
- around the corner
- just around the corner
- just around/round the corner
- (a)round the corner
- stand with
- stand with (one)
- stand together
- close by