at the end of one's tether en · ADP
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(UK, idiomatic) At the limit of one’s patience; frustrated or annoyed.
He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer’s wife.
1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 152:
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fr au bout du rouleau (at the limit of one’s patience) · pl u kresu wytrzymałości (at the limit of one’s patience) · fi olla katkeamispisteessä (at the limit of one’s patience) · ru на грани срыва (at the limit of one’s patience) · de jemandem reißt der Geduldsfaden (gleich) (at the limit of one’s patience) · it al limite della sopportazione (at the limit of one’s patience) · cy i ben ei dennyn (at the limit of one’s patience) · ar بَلَغَ السَّيْلُ الزُّبَى (at the limit of one’s patience) · ko 진퇴양난에 빠진 (at the limit of one’s patience) · fr exaspéré (at the limit of one’s patience) · cmn 在耐心的极限 (at the limit of one’s patience) · gd aig an dùbhlan le (at the limit of one’s patience) · de mit seiner Geduld am Ende (at the limit of one’s patience)