climb up the wall—(coll.) become very angry or distraught:
- Old Marks will climb up the wall if he hears I closed early.
go over the wall—
1. leave a religious order:
- The world is always more interested in the one nun who goes over the wall than the thousands who don’t.
2. escape from prison:
- Us guys pull wires to get jobs as guards, and you convicts go over the wall whenever you can.
3. defect to another country:
- The bloody place [the Foreign Office] has never been the same since Kim Philby went over the wall.
4. go to prison:
- He would be observed “going over the wall” or “going to stir” (going to detention prison).