wear thin
informalC2 If your patience wears thin, you become less and less patient:
I've warned you several times about being late and my patience is wearing thin.
C2 If something such as a joke wears thin, it becomes boring or annoying or stops being funny or effective, because it has been seen, heard, or used too much:
Tony, the joke is beginning to wear thin now - it's time to stop.
Her standard excuse for being late was beginning to wear thin.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Bad-tempered
- argumentative
- bad-tempered
- be hell on wheels idiom
- be like a bear with a sore head idiom
- be spoiling for a fight idiom
- bilious
- dyspeptic
- fractious
- get out of bed (on) the wrong side idiom
- grouchy
- grumpy
- have a short fuse idiom
- peppery
- petulant
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- quick temper
- surly
- touchy
- truculent
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