do someone's head in

present singular third person does someone's head in · participle present doing someone's head in · past did someone's head in · participle past done someone's head in

1. AustraliaUKidiomaticinformalTo frustrate, infuriate, irritate or disturb someone.

   Please stop reading the name of every sign we come across; it's doing my head in!

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   ‘So you spend the nights listening to music?’ ‘And thinking. Does my head in, thoughts going round and round. Dope stops it. The medication sort of does a bit, but not the same.’

   2005, Richard Bryant-Jefferies, Responding to a Serious Mental Health Problem: Person-Centred Dialogues, page 101

   2006, Claire Taylor, quoting “Donnie”, Young People in Care and Criminal Behaviour, page 121, I just want to get out there to me bird really...′cos she don′t want me in here all the time, it′s doing her head in. It′s doing my head in. It didn′t used to do my head in, it used to be like care, if you know what I mean, when I first started coming to jail. It used to be like ‘yeah, I′m back in care’ kind of thing.

   The endless hours spent in my cell did my head in. With my diagnosed mental illness I find it shocking that I should have had to endure this.

   2011, Giorgio Pin, An Interesting Life, page 75