Emotions & feelings
drive someone up the wall
annoy someone extremely
To make someone feel extremely annoyed.
Hear it in real life
Why are you wearing headphones?
The people upstairs are driving me up the wall.
That dripping tap is driving me up the wall.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: The noise drives me on the wall.
Say: The noise drives me up the wall.
The fixed preposition is “up,” not “on.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
drive someone up the wall; be driving someone up the wall
Your turn: say it out loud
That dripping tap is driving me up the wall.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
drive someone up the wall
annoy someone extremely
“That dripping tap is driving me up the wall.”
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