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round the bend en · ADP

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) Crazy, mad or insane.
    • You're bloody berko, Koko! And who's driving? Manny? He's more round the bend than you! 2005, Henrik Moller, Renaissance, page 263:
    • The sixth phone call drove him round the bend.
  2. (idiomatic) Close to or in close proximity to another location.
    • Down the hill and round the bends, Thomas and his friends.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see round, bend.
    • I had travelled one morning down to Aylesbury, and had left my train, and was about to cross the footbridge, when I heard the imperious whistle of a "B1." I paused, and round the bend came the "Master Cutler" with its engine working absolutely flat out. 1955 April, W. J. Alcock, “Unforgettable Moments”, in Railway Magazine, page 271:

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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)