drive someone crazy

English

drive someone crazy (third-person singular simple present drives someone crazy, present participle driving someone crazy, simple past drove someone crazy, past participle driven someone crazy)

(informal, literal) To cause someone to become insane.
(informal, idiomatic) To annoy or irritate.
- 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep‎, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, page 110:
  Jesse Helms, the Republican from North Carolina, drove me crazy at first.
(informal, idiomatic) To cause to be infatuated.
- 1977, Ted Ashford (lyrics and music), “Don't It Drive You Crazy”, in Having A Party, performed by Pointer Sisters:
  Dance for you / Don't it drive you crazy baby?

cause insanity

Catalan: embogir (ca)
Esperanto: frenezigi
German: treiben zum Wahnsinn, verrückt machen
Greek:
Ancient: ἐκμαίνω (ekmaínō)
Hebrew: שִׁגֵּעַ
Ladino: tresalir, enlokeser
Latin: dēmentō
Portuguese: enlouquecer (pt)
Spanish: alocar (es), enloquecer (es), rayarse (es)
Swedish: driva någon till vansinne
Turkish: çıldırtmak (tr)
Ukrainian: зводити з розуму impf (zvodyty z rozumu), звести з розуму pf (zvesty z rozumu)

annoy

cause to be infatuated

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