round the bend

Speech parts

1. round the bend - Phrase

2. round the bend - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

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Synonyms

batty loco dotty daft loony cracked buggy wacky nutty balmy bonkers barmy nuts bats crackers

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Antonyms

sound normal lucid stable academic logical

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Examples

I hear the train a comin, It's rollin' round the bend. An' I ain't seen the sunshine' Since I don't know when. I'm stuck in Folsom prison, And time keeps draggin' on. But that train keeps a rollin' On down to San Antone. Johnny Cash

it used to drive my husband balmy Source: Internet

It was not long before the liberators of the Bastille discovered that the old man with the white beard was round the bend, and they shut him up again immediately in the notorious Charenton asylum! Source: Internet

CASH: (Singing) I hear the train a'coming, it's rolling round the bend, and I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when. Source: Internet

The gator submerges, now invisible, as we round the bend where the air is abraded with the scent of burning tobacco. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

round the bend

Close letter words and terms

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