around the bend

English

Prepositional phrase

around the bend

1. Alternative form of round the bend (crazy, insane).
   • 1988 December 25, Scott Tucker, “Clarifying The Nation's Ethics And Policies”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 5:

     Despite some opposition from other staff members, Navasky and Pochoda decided to publish Sherrill's stylish and daring tone-poem, in which AIDS falls with poetic justice upon the right-wing Roy Cohn. Pochoda calls this "fresh" and "on the edge?" I'd call it rotten and around the bend, as tired and crazed as Reverend Falwell.

   • 2003, Joyce Oldham Appleby, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson, Times Books, page 208:

     Judge John Pickering had clearly gone around the bend, often presiding over his court while drunk.

   • 2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 122:

     It was the longest hour of my life. I couldn't stand it. I thought I would go completely around the bend.

Translations

insane

• German: von Sinnen, behämmert (de) (slang), durch den Wind (idiom), von allen guten Geistern verlassen (idiom)