try patience

try someone's patience

to strain someone's patience; to bother someone as if testing the person's patience. (Try means test here.) My loud neighbors are trying my patience today. You really try my patience with all your questions!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lykke	-	Danish
DuŠAna	-	Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Slovak
Amalasuintha	-	Ancient Germanic
İSmet	ees-MET	Turkish
Xenocrates	zi-NAH-krə-teez (English)	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Philadelphia	fil-ə-DEL-fee-ə	English (Rare)