TRY ONE'S PATIENCE Definition & Meaning

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try one's patience

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Put one's tolerance to a severe test, cause one to be annoyed, as in Putting these parts together really tries my patience , or Her constant lateness tries our patience . This idiom uses try in the sense of “test,” a usage dating from about 1300.

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Still, such characters can also try one’s patience, making a series difficult to watch, no matter how good it is.

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In the third place, there are special annoyances in the service of a public, which includes always some inconsiderate and many ignorant persons, and these will frequently try one's patience, however angelic and forbearing.

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“True, true, and I would not speak slightingly of them, but they do try one’s patience; here is the wind failing, and we all ready to hoist sail,” returned the captain with another growl, a glance at the sky, and a frown at his vessel, everything about which betokened readiness for instant departure.

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Surely this is enough to try one's patience.

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Some parties would waste the time, and try one's patience by having amongst them laggards, to whom explanations already given had to be repeated.

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