try patience

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• try 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… …   Useful english dictionary

• try 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 …   Useful english dictionary

• Try — 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,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• try the patience of someone — try the patience of (someone) to cause someone to become extremely annoyed. The judge told the lawyer that he was trying the patience of the court with his delaying tactics …   New idioms dictionary

• try the patience of — (someone) to cause someone to become extremely annoyed. The judge told the lawyer that he was trying the patience of the court with his delaying tactics …   New idioms dictionary

• try one's patience — index badger, bait (harass), provoke Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• try the patience — index discompose, pique, plague Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• try it on — (informal) To attempt to do something risky or audacious to see how far one can go unscathed • • • Main Entry: ↑try * * * Brit., informal attempt to deceive or seduce someone he was trying it on with my wife ■ deliberately test someone s patience …   Useful english dictionary

• try — (v.) c.1300, examine judiciously, sit in judgment of, from Anglo Fr. trier (late 13c.), from O.Fr. trier to pick out, cull (12c.), from Gallo Romance *triare, of unknown origin. The ground sense is separate out (the good) by examination. Meaning… …   Etymology dictionary

• try it on Brit. — try it on Brit. informal 1》 attempt to seduce someone. 2》 deliberately test someone s patience. → try …   English new terms dictionary

• try — 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¦( …   Dictionary of contemporary English