up the walls

English

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Prepositional phrase

up the walls

  1. (idiomatic, UK, Ireland, regarding a workplace, etc.) Very busy, swamped.
    We were up the walls last week and I got ten hours overtime.
    We didn't go to the restaurant as it was up the walls.

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