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The phrase "stir crazy" is correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it to describe a feeling of restlessness or frustration that comes from being in confinement or isolation for a long period of time. Example: After being snowed in for five days, Sarah was starting to feel stir crazy and desperate for some fresh air and human interaction.
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stir crazy
adjective
Alternative form of stir-crazy
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Otherwise I go stir crazy".
If I were downtown, I'd go stir crazy.
Absent that task, they must be given something else to do or they go stir crazy.
A bunch of writers got trapped inside, went stir crazy, and one of them, Mary Shelley, wrote Frankenstein.
And this week I have felt that acutely, sitting here recovering, recuperating, going stir crazy.
"We did Stir Crazy and Richard was a bad boy," Wilder later recalled.
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Javier grew stir-crazy.
"He's just stir-crazy".
Share your stir-crazy stories in the comment box below.
After a couple of days she's kind of stir-crazy.
"That's when I went stir-crazy," he said.
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