"climb the walls" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "climbs the walls",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "climbing the walls",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "climbed the walls",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "climbed the walls",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*",
        "head": "climb the walls"
      },
      "expansion": "climb the walls (third-person singular simple present climbs the walls, present participle climbing the walls, simple past and past participle climbed the walls)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968 July 5, “Never Like Anyone Else”, in Time",
          "text": "There are purists who climb the walls when German Conductor-Organist-Harpsichordist Karl Richter performs Bach. . . . To them, imagination—and Richter has plenty—is the ultimate transgression.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Free Press",
          "text": "Or maybe we could locate a place to camp and fish that would be close to your mother. The area wouldn't be as nice, but we could still be outdoors and meet other needs as well. And the boys wouldn't be climbing the walls.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in a distressed or frantic manner; to exhibit great agitation."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "behave",
          "behave"
        ],
        [
          "distress",
          "distress"
        ],
        [
          "frantic",
          "frantic"
        ],
        [
          "agitation",
          "agitation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To behave in a distressed or frantic manner; to exhibit great agitation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "behave in a distressed or frantic manner",
          "word": "hyppiä seinille"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "climb the walls"
}

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    {
      "form": "climbs the walls",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "climbing the walls",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "climbed the walls",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "climbed the walls",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "climb the walls"
      },
      "expansion": "climb the walls (third-person singular simple present climbs the walls, present participle climbing the walls, simple past and past participle climbed the walls)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968 July 5, “Never Like Anyone Else”, in Time",
          "text": "There are purists who climb the walls when German Conductor-Organist-Harpsichordist Karl Richter performs Bach. . . . To them, imagination—and Richter has plenty—is the ultimate transgression.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Free Press",
          "text": "Or maybe we could locate a place to camp and fish that would be close to your mother. The area wouldn't be as nice, but we could still be outdoors and meet other needs as well. And the boys wouldn't be climbing the walls.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in a distressed or frantic manner; to exhibit great agitation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "behave",
          "behave"
        ],
        [
          "distress",
          "distress"
        ],
        [
          "frantic",
          "frantic"
        ],
        [
          "agitation",
          "agitation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To behave in a distressed or frantic manner; to exhibit great agitation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "behave in a distressed or frantic manner",
      "word": "hyppiä seinille"
    }
  ],
  "word": "climb the walls"
}