at the end of one's tether

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  1. At the limit of one’s patience; frustrated or annoyed. UK,idiomatic
    — He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer’s wife.
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