This is an All-Eers English podcast episode 647.

What does drive me up the wall mean in English?

Welcome to the All-Eers English podcast where you'll finally get real native English conversation and

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We believe in connection, not perfectionion when it comes to learning English.

Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl coming to you from

Boston and New York City, USA.

Today, learn about the phrase, Drive Me Up the Wall. What it means, how to use it and five other phrases that mean the same thing. This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max.

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Pretty good, Lindsay, how are you? Oh my God, well a few things are driving me up a wall these days, but for the most part I'm remaining calm. Okay, oh no, what's wrong? Well, my computer's crazy, you know, I tried to double the size of the hard drive and I couldn't do it.

And it was just I had to go back to the technology center and it was just driving me up a wall up the wall completely wow crazy

crazy yeah oh my gosh well I hope you get that worked out thank you thank you we're going to talk a little bit more about that

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Let's zoom back to driving up a wall. So Michelle, does anything drive you up a wall? I mean what drives you up a wall?

There must be something. Well it's funny that you ask because I was just reading what kind of what I think you might say

drives you up a wall or used to drive you up a wall.

And it made me think of, before I even saw that, it made me think of what drives me up the wall,

which is taking the train in New York.

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