run out of patience

idiom

: to become annoyed or upset about having to wait for something

Those people have been here for hours, and they're starting to run out of patience.

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There have been growing signs in recent months that the public has run out of patience with zero-Covid, after nearly three years of economic hardship and disruption to daily life. —Jessie Yeung, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022

Some might run out of patience with the borrower and sell the loan. —J. Scott Trubey, ajc, 16 Nov. 2021

The Moon administration — long so accommodating and optimistic in its dealings with the North — finally seemed to run out of patience. —Washington Post, 17 June 2020

The tactics that had pushed officials to retreat at times are suddenly inadequate against an aggressive police force, fear of the coronavirus, and a Chinese Communist Party that has run out of patience. —Vivian Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2020

She’s run out of patience with digital monitoring and has had to rely more on educating her kids. —Meg St-Esprit, PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2023

Apple’s management also seems to have run out of patience. —Simon Willis, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023

By the time James Johnson’s Heat tenure came to an end in 2020, the sense was the Heat had run out of patience. —Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2023

Doesn’t a person run out of patience after four or five times of this? —Paul Newman, Time, 18 Oct. 2022