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[end of one's
rope] or [end of one's tether] {n. phr.}, {informal}The end of your trying or
imagining; the last of your ability, orideas of how to do more.
Frank was out
of work and broke, and hewas at the end of his rope.
The doctor saw that
Mother had reachedthe end of her tether, and told us to send her away for a
holiday.
Compare: AT ONE'S WIT'S END, FED UP, UP AGAINST IT, UP A
TREE.
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