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drive someone to distraction

to make someone very angry or very bored. Looking after six children every day is enough to drive you to distraction. There's a constant buzzing noise and it's driving me to distraction.

See also: drive

drive you to distraction

to cause you to be unable to think or work. That constant buzzing noise is driving me to distraction.

Usage notes: sometimes used in the form do something to distraction to be unable to think of anything else: It is obvious that he loves her to distraction.

Related vocabulary: drive you up the wall

See also: drive

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