drive someone crazy
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Verb
[edit]drive someone crazy (third-person singular simple present drives someone crazy, present participle driving someone crazy, simple past drove someone crazy, past participle driven someone crazy)
- (informal, literal) To cause someone to become insane.
- (informal, idiomatic) To annoy or irritate.
- 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep[1], New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, page 110:
- Jesse Helms, the Republican from North Carolina, drove me crazy at first.
- (informal, idiomatic) To cause to be infatuated.
- 1977, Ted Ashford (lyrics and music), “Don't It Drive You Crazy”, in Having A Party, performed by Pointer Sisters:
- Dance for you / Don't it drive you crazy baby?
Synonyms
[edit]- drive someone insane
- drive someone mad
- drive someone nuts
- drive someone up the wall
- drive to distraction
Translations
[edit]cause insanity
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annoy
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cause to be infatuated
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