to try sb's patience
1try someone's patience — try someone’s patience phrase to do something very annoying, so that someone else has to try very hard not to get angry with you Look, you’re really trying my patience now; please stop making that noise! Thesaurus: to make someone angry or… …
2try somebody's patience — try sb s ˈpatience idiom to make sb feel impatient • His stubbornness would try the patience of a saint. Main entry: ↑tryidiom …
3try one's patience — index badger, bait (harass), provoke Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
4try someone's patience — If you find it difficult to be patient with someone because of their irritating attitude or behaviour, you can say that they are trying your patience. His constant interruptions began to try the teacher s patience …
5try someone's patience — to do something very annoying, so that someone else has to try very hard not to get angry with you Look, you re really trying my patience now; please stop making that noise! …
6try one'a patience — check to see how much one can tolerate …
7Try — Try, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {tried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trying}.] [OE. trien to select, pick out, F. trier to cull, to out, LL. tritare to triturate (hence the sense of, to thresh, to separate the grain from the straw, to select), L. terere, tritum,… …
8try — try1 W1S1 [traı] v past tense and past participle tried present participle trying third person singular tries ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(attempt)¦ 2¦(test/use)¦ 3¦(food/drink)¦ 4¦(try to find somebody/something)¦ 5¦(door/window)¦ 6¦( …
9try — 1 /traI/ verb 1 ATTEMPT (I, T) to attempt to do or get something: try to do sth: Don t shout at him; he s only trying to help. | try sth: Roberts tried a shot at goal. | try and do sth: You must try and control your temper. | try: Tim may not be… …
10patience — n. quality of being patient 1) to display, show patience 2) to tax, try smb. s patience 3) to lose one s patience; to run out of patience 4) endless, inexhaustible, infinite patience 5) one s patience wears thin 6) patience for; with (she has… …