What does башню сносит mean?

[vargtimmen.livejournal.com]

башню сносит: I know what it means literally, but not as an expression.

The context is a Hallmark e-Card:
У нас тут полный дурдом.
башню сносит...
крышна едет...
скоро уже пятница-то будет?
(жим сюда, если тебе уже надоело это слушатъ)
а ты-то как?

Comments

[xacah-tdi.livejournal.com]

it means "i go crazy"

[colonelrabin.livejournal.com]

Yes, it means "it drives me crazy". The probable ethymology is an analogy of the human's head to a tank's tower. A canon shell blows the tank tower away - the news (music, joke, drug etc.) "blows my head away".

"Крышу сносит" or "крыша едет" have a similar meaning.

[crimeanelf.livejournal.com]

[Something] drives me crazy is not the proper translation of крышу рвёт = to go crazy (without a [something]).

[colonelrabin.livejournal.com]

I'd say it is proper. The impersonal form in Russian suggest another subject than "I". But if you prefer, use it as you wish.

[crimeanelf.livejournal.com]

>The impersonal form in Russian suggest another subject

Nope. I mean, not necessarily. Look at Дама сдавала в багаж..." (http://lukoshko.net/marshak/marsrd12.shtml) Who gave her the ticket? Who loaded her luggage? Does it matter? No, it does not.

Now, when something drives you crazy, this something matters a lot. :)

[crimeanelf.livejournal.com]

Here is more. Мне рвёт крышу is a sensation. Like меня лихорадит.

[seraph6.livejournal.com]

"Сносит крышу". Not "рвет".

[hyyudu.livejournal.com]

"Рвет" is also usable.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_olmec/]

I never heard the "Рвет" version. Maybe it exists but in soem specific regions of Russia? I think that башню сносит is more common expression.

[hyyudu.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the Goblin's funny translation of the "Lord of the Rings" movie? Second part, "Две сорванные башни".
- Колбасит, Михалыч?
- Просто башню рвет!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_olmec/]

it's all modifications: башню сносит, крыша едет, башню срывает etc. Some of them are used more often like the first one. There are some expressions in Goblin's movies that I never heared in real life :) Actually, I've never heard "башню рвет" or "рвёт крышу" except that movie. And I think that these expressions are stronger than just башню сносит

[hyyudu.livejournal.com]

Right you are