losing control of myself, losing patience (see lose patience) Babysitting five kids, I was at the end of my rope.
at the end of one's tether
Idiom(s): at the end of one's rope AND at the end of one's tether
Theme: FRUSTRATION
at the limits of one's endurance. • I’m at the end of my rope! I just can't go on this way! • These kids are driving me out of my mind. I'm at the end of my tether.
At the end of your tether
(UK) If you are at the end of your tether, you are at the limit of your patience or endurance.
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n. phr., informal The end of your trying or imagining; the last of your ability, or ideas of how to do more. Frank was out of work and broke, and he was at the end of his rope.The doctor saw that Mother had reached the end of her tether, and told us to send her away for a holiday. Compare: AT ONE'S WIT'S END, FED UP, UP AGAINST IT, UP A TREE.
To ability or be abutting to a point of absolute burnout or exasperation; to accept no added patience, endurance, or activity left. The baby's been arrant all morning, and I haven't slept appropriately in days. I'm aloof advancing to the end of my tether!We've been advancing to the end of our tethers aggravating to get this affair resolved.Learn more: come, end, of, tether, to
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To accept beat one’s assets or abilities. The appellation alludes to a tethered (roped) beastly that can abrade alone as far as the breadth of the braiding permits. “Being run to the end of his Rope, as one that had no added Excuses to make,” wrote Sir John Chardin in 1686 (The Coronation of Solyman the Third). “I am at the end of my tether” was abutting to actuality a cliché by the time Royall Tyler acclimated the band in his ball The Contrast (first U.S. assembly in 1787).Learn more: come, end, of, rope, to
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