round the bend
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1. round the bend - Phrase
2. round the bend - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
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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.
it used to drive my husband balmy
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!
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.
The gator submerges, now invisible, as we round the bend where the air is abraded with the scent of burning tobacco.