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drive someone bananas

drive someone bananas or drive someone nuts or drive someone ape {v. phr.}, {slang} {informal}

To excite someone to the point that he or she goes out of his or her mind; to drive someone crazy.

You're driving me bananas, nuts with that kind of talk!

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