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round the bend

ADJECTIVE
  1. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
    it used to drive my husband balmy

How To Use round the bend In A Sentence

  • The motorcyclist had a brush with danger as he skidded round the bend.
  • And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend … Think Progress » Claiming God’s Support, Conservatives Push Massive Budget Cuts
  • The tide is running with us and we make good speed down-river around the bend from Westminster and from there to the opposite shore of the river. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
  • The runners accelerated smoothly around the bend.
  • Suddenly, one of our number appears from around the bend upstream and makes towards us. Times, Sunday Times
  • Around the bend in the path came a soft, pale, velvety nose, attached to a large, prancing, silky brown body bearing a well-filled udder between the hind legs.
  • As the two motorcycles sped along the highway, one closed with the other round the bend.
  • The car disappeared round the bend in the road.
  • These athletes have had to adjust to being forced with G-factors around the bends of the course that are 3 or 4 G, and staying with the Skeleton sled to the bottom.
  • I couldn't help thinking of the French expression: "perdre la boussole" ( "perdre" = to lose and "la boussole" = compass) which means: to go round the bends, to go nuts. The French word for plastered drunk... - French Word-A-Day
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