at the end of your tether
C2 mainly UK US usually at the end of your rope having no strength or patience left:
By six o'clock after a busy day I'm at the end of my tether.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Becoming too excited and easily upset
- ant
- antsy
- at the end of your tether
- be in a whirl idiom
- be in/get into a lather idiom
- explosive
- highly strung
- hot under the collar idiom
- hyper
- hyperactive
- hypersensitive
- hysteria
- hysterics
- sensitive
- shock
- stomach
- tether
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- worked up
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