up the walls

English

Prepositional phrase

up the walls

(idiomatic, Britain, Ireland, regarding a workplace, etc.) Very busy, swamped.
We were up the walls last week and I got ten hours overtime.

We didn't go to the restaurant as it was up the walls.

See also

up the wall

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