test someone's patience

English

Verb

test someone's patience (third-person singular simple present tests someone's patience, present participle testing someone's patience, simple past and past participle tested someone's patience)

  1. (informal, transitive) To begin to frustrate someone.
    Synonym: try someone's patience
    These frequent Internet outages are testing my patience.
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