round the bend

Idioms and Phrases

see around the bend , def. 2.

Example Sentences

You can almost hear Johnny Cash sing: “I hear that train a-comin’, it’s rolling ’round the bend, and they ain’t seen the World Series since I don’t know when.”

From Seattle Times

When it reaches the right side of the track, you see it round the bend and then start moving right to left.

From Scientific American

"I was going well round the bend, but tightened up and lost my footing a bit and it was downhill from there."

From BBC

"I feel confused because I felt fine coming in, but when I was going round the bend my legs just stopped corresponding with me," Asher-Smith told BBC Sport.

From BBC

If we don’t hear much — and we probably won’t — it sure seems like our politics is going terminally round the bend down a dangerous road.

From Seattle Times

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