fed up

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adj.
Unable or unwilling to put up with something any longer: She was fed up with their complaints. I resigned because I was fed up.


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adjective

    Out of patience with: disgusted, sick, tired, weary. Idioms: sick and tired. See tired/fresh.

Also, fed to the teeth; fed up. Disgusted, unable or unwilling to put up with something. For example, I'm fed to the gills with these delays (the gills here is slang for "mouth"), or He was fed to the teeth with her excuses, or I'm fed up--let's leave right now. Of these colloquial expressions, fed up, alluding to being overfull from having overeaten, dates from about 1900, and the others from the first half of the 1900s. Also see up to one's ears.


adj

Definition: disgusted with
Antonyms: happy, overjoyed, pleased

sign description: The back of the flat hand slaps up against the chin.




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