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单词 wear thin
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wear thin

phrase [usually cont]
If your patience or temper is wearing thin, you are becoming annoyed and are likely to get angry soon.
He was sympathetic at first but his patience soon wore thin.
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wear thin

phrase [usually cont]
If you say that something is wearing thin, you mean that people do not find it funny or interesting any more and are becoming annoyed with it, because they have seen or heard it so many times.
Some of Wilson's eccentricities are beginning to wear thin.
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Examples of 'wear thin' in a sentence
wear thin

Public patience is fast wearing thin.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Still we wait and patience is beginning to wear thin.
The Sun (2015)
 Patience was wearing thin and time was running out.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But insiders say his patience had worn thin over the deceit and lies told by corrupt contacts.
The Sun (2011)
But his patience is wearing thin and so will that of voters.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Her husband was sympathetic at first but his patience soon wore thin as his partners became critical of his continual excuses.
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The mainland's patience is wearing thin.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Our patience is wearing thin, too.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Now the nation's patience is wearing thin.
The Sun (2013)
He had tried to grow it but his patience had worn thin with the constant attention it needed to look healthy and stylish.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
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