Lesson
If you are 'at the end of your tether' you are so tired, weary or annoyed with something that you feel unable to deal with it any more.- He hasn't been able to find a job and is at the end of his tether.
- That baby hasn't stopped crying all day and I'm at the end of my rope.
- Nothing I've tried seems to work. I'm at my wits' end.
- She can't get him to follow her orders. She's at her wits' end.
- His constant talking is getting on my nerves.
- We don't work well together. We get on each other's nerves.
- He was an hour late for the meeting and then, to add insult to injury, he spent twenty minutes on the telephone.
- To add insult to injury, not only did she not come to the meeting but she then insisted that she had never been invited.
- Working in the company was not very nice so, when they asked me to take a pay cut, it was the last straw and I left.
- The last straw was when he came back from lunch at 4.00. I sacked him on the spot.
- Her constant moaning is driving me around the bend.
- She rings me up every week trying to sell me something. It's driving me round the bend.
- The way she always arrives one hour late is driving me up the wall.
- All these telephone calls are driving me up the wall.
- The way he whistles all the time is driving me to distraction.
- Her insolence is driving me to distraction.
- I've been tearing my hair out trying to timetable this meeting.
- I'm tearing my hair out trying to solve the problem.
- I could have kicked myself for wasting time earlier when I found out I'd missed the plane by only five minutes.
- If I don't buy one now and they sell out quickly, I'll kick myself.
