stretch someone's patience

idiom

: to cause someone to lose patience
Her bad behavior is stretching my patience (to the limit).

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“Stretch someone's patience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stretch%20someone%27s%20patience. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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