try one's patience

Put one's tolerance to a severe test, cause one to be annoyed, as in Putting these parts together really tries my patience, or Her constant lateness tries our patience. This idiom uses try in the sense of "test," a usage dating from about 1300.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Demetrius	[də'mi:triəs]
Lena	LE-nah (German, Polish, Italian), LYE-nah (Russian), LEE-nə (English)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Polish, Russian, English, Italian, Portuguese
Urh	-	Slovene
Ofydd	-	Welsh
Ascroft	['æʃkrɔft]
Rikuto	ṙee-koo-to	Japanese