People drove cars up walls and it made people mad.
The origin of this phrase "Driving you up the wall" is British. Meaning to aggravate someone to the point of doing the impossible.
It means that you drive them up to a wall in a vehicle. I believe you mean the idiom phrase "drive you up the wall," which means to frustrate you to the point where you feel like climbing up the wall to escape from them.
I think you mean "drive someone up the wall," which means to make them so frustrated that they are thinking of climbing the walls to escape.
The phrase "drive someone up a wall" originated from the idea of causing someone extreme frustration or irritation, akin to feeling so overwhelmed that they would climb up a wall to escape the situation. It's used to express exasperation when someone or something is annoying or infuriating.
It refers to the mindless, scrabbling aversion caused in people by the presence of rats or snakes on the floor of a confined space. Now it just means to irritate and interfere with someone so much that they can't function properly.
Yes, "driving you up the wall" is a metaphor. It is an expression to convey someone's frustration or annoyance. It does not literally mean physically pushing someone up a wall but rather describes an emotional state.
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Wall photos come up as a folder in your photos, they are the photos that you put on your wall as like a status, they are posts you have made. :D
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Push factors drive people from their country of origin, while pull factors determine where the travelers end up. They contribute to immigration.
"Driving him up the wall" means causing someone to become extremely frustrated or annoyed to the point of feeling overwhelmed or agitated.
A "pin-up" is a picture of a sexy person that you "pin up" (or tape up or whatever) on your wall. By extension, a "pin-up" is a person who looks like someone whose picture you'd like to put on your wall!