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1 who would try the patience of a saint
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2 (smb.) who would try the patience of a saint
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3 enough to make a saint swear
(enough to make a saint swear (тж. one would provoke или try the patience of a saint))≈ даже у святого терпение может лопнутьThe remonstrances... I have received... have been enough to make a saint swear. (Fr. Marryat, ‘Percival Keene’, ch. XXVI) — От увещеваний... которые мне пришлось выслушать... даже у святого лопнуло бы терпение.
Really, they would have tried the patience of a saint, let alone a healthy contentious Irish foreman-mason. (Th. Dreiser, ‘Twelve Men’, ‘The Mighty Rourke’) — Они, действительно, вывели бы из себя святого, не говоря уж о старшем каменщике, здоровенном ирландце, не отличавшемся кротостью нрава.
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