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drive someone batty

 and drive someone bonkers; drive someone nuts

Fig. to annoy or irritate someone. You are certainly annoying! You're going to drive me batty. This cold is driving me bonkers. These tax forms are driving me nuts.

See also: batty, drive

bats

1. and batty mod. crazy. You are driving me batty! You are bats if you think I would ever wear a haircut like that.

2. and batty mod. alcohol intoxicated; confused and drunk. The guy was bats—stewed to his ears. He was a bit batty, but he’d been drinking since noon, so no one was surprised.

3. and the bats n. the delirium tremens. (Always with the.) My buddy is shaking because of a slight case of the bats.

batty

verb

See bats