Tether
71At the end of your tether — (UK) If you are at the end of your tether, you are at the limit of your patience or endurance …
72the end of one's tether — ► the end of one s tether having no patience or energy left. Main Entry: ↑end …
73at the end of one's tether — adjective At the limit of one’s patience; frustrated or annoyed …
74at the end of his tether — Meaning Reach the end of your resources. Origin The reference is to a tethered grazing animal. ref: Brewer s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 15th edition …
75at the end of one's tether — out of patience, exasperated, frustrated …
76come to the end of one's tether — lose patience, become exasperated, run out of patience …
77at the end of my rope/ at the end of my tether — losing control of myself, losing patience (See lose patience Babysitting five kids, I was at the end of my rope …
78the end of one's tether — see end …
79Tethered — Tether Teth er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tethered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tethering}.] To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits. [1913 Webster] And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone. Wordsworth.… …
80Tethering — Tether Teth er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tethered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tethering}.] To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits. [1913 Webster] And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone. Wordsworth.… …