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Drive someone up the wall


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To drive someone up the wall means to excessively annoy somebody.

Sample Usage

1. The fiver year old was a real brat and drove the teachers up the wall at the playschool.

2. Shyama's constant whining about the non-functional office air conditioner drove everybody up the wall.

3. Sheetal had a tendency to drive her mother up the wall with her constant demand for new clothes.


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