test one's patience
Frequency: 6.57.8 per million words
to do something that might make someone lose their patience
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Examples (10)
- The constant interruptions really test my patience.
- His slow progress is starting to test the teacher's patience.
- A difficult customer can test your patience to the limit.
- The long delay at the airport tested the patience of the passengers.
- It's unwise to test his patience when he's already stressed.
- The puppy's behavior would test the patience of a saint.
- They are deliberately trying to test my patience by arriving late.
- Trying to assemble this furniture is really testing my patience.
- The slow bureaucratic process will test anyone's patience.
- How much longer will you test my patience with these excuses?