around the bend

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Prepositional phrase

around the bend

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

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