drive someone up the wall

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drive someone up the wall (third-person singular simple present drives someone up the wall, present participle driving someone up the wall, simple past drove someone up the wall, past participle driven someone up the wall)

1. (idiomatic) To make a person very angry or frustrated; to infuriate.

   Her persistent nagging and constant bickering with me nearly drove me up the wall.

   • 1998 September 18, Charles Taylor, “Hong Kong Hollywood”, in Salon‎, archived from the original on 2008-05-06:

     There is nothing and no one that's going to shut him up. That's what makes [Chris] Tucker funny. It's also what can drive you up the wall about him.

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