Emotions & feelings
test someone's patience
make it hard to stay calm
If something tests your patience, it makes it difficult for you to stay calm.
Hear it in real life
How was the renovation?
The dust and noise tested my patience.
Waiting three hours for a delayed flight really tested my patience.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: The long wait tested my patient.
Say: The long wait tested my patience.
“Test someone’s patience” takes the noun “patience” for the ability to stay calm.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
test someone's patience; be testing someone's patience
Your turn: say it out loud
Waiting three hours for a delayed flight really tested my patience.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
test someone's patience
make it hard to stay calm
“Waiting three hours for a delayed flight really tested my patience.”
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