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Difference between Round the bend and Round the corner

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round the bend —(also: around the bend)

1. said of smth. about to happen very soon:

  • The Harpoon Brewery’s annual two-day St. Patrick’s Festival is “round the bend”!

2. (coll.) crazy; insane:

  • People’s initial reaction is to think that you must be round the bend.

round the corner—(also: around the corner) = round the bend 1:

  • Hoover was saying that prosperity was just round the corner.