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单词 wear thin
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wear thin

informal

C2 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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