{"id":72826,"date":"2019-11-11T08:54:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T08:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72826"},"modified":"2019-11-11T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T08:54:01","slug":"go-stir-crazy-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/go-stir-crazy-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Stir Crazy | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To go stir crazy<\/strong> is to become upset and nervous because you have been confined to a place for too long.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThis fever has forced me to stay at home. I haven\u2019t stepped out in several days.\u201d \u201cNo wonder you are going stir crazy.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>I will go stir-crazy if I don\u2019t get out of this place.<\/li>\n<li>It is no wonder she is going stir-crazy. She hasn\u2019t stepped out even once in the last few months.<\/li>\n<li>I promised my wife that I would take care of the kids while she was away on a business tour, but I went stir-crazy after a few days.<\/li>\n<li>People often go stir-crazy during the rainy season because they get fewer opportunities to go out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Origin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stir<\/strong> is an informal word used for prison in American English. It isn\u2019t uncommon for prisoners to go mad because of the forced confinement. That means they would often go stir-crazy. Nowadays this expression is used to refer to frustration arising out of any confinement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To go stir crazy is to become upset and nervous because you have been confined to a place for too long. \u201cThis fever has forced me to stay at home. I haven\u2019t stepped out&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[393,1859],"class_list":["post-72826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-english-idioms","tag-go-stir-crazy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72827,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72826\/revisions\/72827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}