round the bend

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*(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

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In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend upstream. The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context But before she had quite reached it another vehicle shot out from a clump of trees on the summit, came round the bend of the road there, passed the luggage-cart, and halted beside Tess, who looked up as if in great surprise. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context Owing to the peculiar form of the shore on the Kentucky side, the land bending far out into the water, the ice had been lodged and detained in great quantities, and the narrow channel which swept round the bend was full of ice, piled one cake over another, thus forming a temporary barrier to the descending ice, which lodged, and formed a great, undulating raft, filling up the whole river, and extending almost to the Kentucky shore. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context			rotten rotten apple rotten apple spoils the barrel rotten egg rotten luck rotten to the core rough rough and ready rough edges rough idea rough in rough it rough justice rough out rough stuff rough trade rough up rough-and-ready rough-and-tumble round round and round round down round off round off to round out round the bend round the clock round the twist round up round-trip ticket roundabout rounding error rouse rouse from rouse out of rouse to roust out of rout out of some place route route around route to rove row row out to royal rub rub against rub at rub away rub down rub elbows			round scad round shape round shot round shots round steak round step round strand rope Round Style One Car Garage Round Table Round Table Round Table Round Table Round Table Round Table Conference of 1949 Round Table Coordinating Assembly Round Table Deutschland Round Table Knights Round Table New Zealand Round Table of Britain and Ireland Round Table of Goodness Round Table Owners Association Round Table Pizza, Inc. Round Table San Marino Round Table Session Round Tables on the Environment and the Economy round tape round the bend Round the Bend Players round the clock round the clock round the clock round the clock round the corner round the corner round the corner round the corner Round the House Round the Island Race Round the Pole Round the Twist Round the Twist Round the world Round the world Round the World Minimum Check Round the World Tour Round the World Trip round timber Round to even Round to even round top Round Top State Bank Round Tops Round tower Round tower Round Towers Round Towers round trip

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