round the bend

(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

round the bend

mainly BRITISH, INFORMAL

COMMON 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, round

round the bend (or twist)

crazy; mad. informal

1998 Spectator She combines a fondness for holidays in Switzerland with an amiable husband…who saves her from going completely round the bend.

See also: bend, round

(drive somebody/be/go) round the ˈbend/ˈtwist

(informal, especially British English) (make somebody/be/become) crazy: I’m going round the twist trying to repair this machine. Nothing I do seems to work. ♢ He practises the same tune all day; it drives me round the bend (= annoys me very much).

See also: bend, round, twist

round the bend

verb

See around the bend

See also: bend, round