around the bend en · ADP
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of round the bend (crazy, insane).
alt of round the bend
It was the longest hour of my life. I couldn't stand it. I thought I would go completely around the bend.
2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 122: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.
1988 December 25, Scott Tucker, “Clarifying The Nation's Ethics And Policies”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 5:Judge John Pickering had clearly gone around the bend, often presiding over his court while drunk.
2003, Joyce Oldham Appleby, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson, Times Books, page 208:
Translations (6)
pl stuknięty (mad, crazy) · de kopflos (mad, crazy) · de durchgeknallt (mad, crazy) · pl szalony (mad, crazy) · pl zwariowany (mad, crazy) · de meschugge (mad, crazy)