单词 | wear thin |
释义 | wear thin wear thin INFORMAL C2 If your patience wears thin, you become less and less patient: » I've warned you several times about being late and my patience is wearing thin.Thesaurus+: ↑Bad-temperedC2 If something such as a joke wears thin, it becomes boring or annoying or stops being funny or effective, because it has been seen, heard, or used too much: » Tony, the joke is beginning to wear thin now and a lot of us have had enough.» Her standard excuse for being late was beginning to wear thin.Thesaurus+: ↑Deteriorating and making worse |
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