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suffer fools gladly en · VERB
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(idiomatic, in the negative) To be tolerant of stupidity or incompetence in other people.
He [Henry Sweet] was, I believe, not in the least an illnatured man: very much the opposite, I should say; but he would not suffer fools gladly.
1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion. Preface.”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, page 100:For ye ſuffre foles gladly be cauſe that ye youre ſelves are wyſe.
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians xj:[19], folio ccxlv, recto:
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nobody's fool