Rephrasing sentences

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angelsrolls

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A: She's driving me bananas, Marty.
B: For you, bananas is not a long drive.

How do you rephrase these sentences? More specifically, if the first sentence was "she makes me crazy, Marty", what would the second one be like?
 

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B is a joke. You would use a joke like this only with someone you were very close to, someone you were certain would not be offended. It insultingly suggests that the person who said A is already pretty close to crazy.

"She makes me crazy, Marty" I suspect is dialect that would be heard mainly in the New York city area. The joke could still be made: "You're already half-crazy."
 

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Here you have to rephrase option b sentences.
 
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Why do you think only Sentence B has to be rephrased? The OP asked how to rephrase "these sentences".
 
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