drive someone mad
Push to madness
To drive someone mad is to cause them extreme frustration, annoyance, or exasperation: The constant noise from construction is driving me mad.
It can also mean to make someone wildly enthusiastic or obsessed: She's driving him mad with desire.
The phrase uses mad in both its senses—insane and intensely affected.
- going bonkersBecoming wildly irrational
- yellingVocalization at maximum volume
- frustrationDispleasure from blocked efforts
- exasperationIntense weary annoyance
- last strawUltimate triggering incident
losing patience · noise · whine · burnout · overthinking · anger · blood boiling · obsession · on edge · stress · helplessness · snapping · short fuse · agitation · miscommunication · misunderstandings · poke · itch