# go to Prestwich

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/go-to-prestwich
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To go mad.

## Examples

- If you keep working this hard, you will go to Prestwich.
- After three weeks of constant noise from the construction site, I think I am going to Prestwich.
- The relentless pressure of the high-stakes trial threatened to make the exhausted lawyer go to Prestwich before the closing arguments.

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