I think she’s going to drive me into a wall
Posted: November 28, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: drive me insane, drive me up a wall, expressions, humor, language, malaphor, malaphors, words Leave a commentThis was uttered by the submitter’s daughter, complaining about a co-worker. It’s a nice congruent conflation of “drive (someone) insane” and “drive (someone) up a wall”, both meaning to irritate or annoy someone to the point of distraction. The speaker may have been thinking “insane” but the “in” led to “into”. Just a theory. A big thanks to Steve Grieme for hearing this one!
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