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stir-crazy
(redirected from go stir-crazy)

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*stir-crazy
crazy from being confined. (*Typically: be ~; become ~; go ~; get ~; make someone ~. stir is a slang word for prison.) I am going to go stir-crazy if I don't get out of this office.

stir-crazy  (mainly American informal)
upset and nervous because you have been in one place for too long
Usage notes: Stir is a word used in American English for a prison.
It's no wonder she's going stir-crazy, shut in that tiny house all day with three young children.


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Overall: Even if you go stir-crazy, you'll do so comfortably.
``You can almost go stir-crazy in a studio apartment where you eat, sleep and watch TV in the same room, so the most important thing is to make it well-arranged by leaving it completely open or dividing it into areas of activity with screens or large pieces of furniture that serve as dividers,'' Leonard advises.
 
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