the end of your tether
the end of your rope

When you're at the end of your tether, snap it and join me."

A sardonic voice in his head mocked, You're at the end of your tether.

It seems to me that you're overexcited, at the end of your tether, nerves shot, more, tired.

You'd get lost, or slung to the end of your tether, or knocked in the head and burned.

You were lost, just out of jail, no job, nowhere to go, at the end of your tether, and then you met them.

We can sense that you already feel harassed and that you are at the end of your tether, so maybe it will work.

If you've reached the end of your tether with being poked, bitten by vampires, asked to take endless quizzes or are simply concerned about privacy issues, then completely deleting your Facebook account is the nuclear option.

You can even, if you want, use the built-in bicycle pedals to pedal yourself back up the line, with a built-in "parking brake" effect so that if it gets too much for you and you lose a stroke, you don't break your legs and go sliding down to the end of your tether.

"Before or after I pulled you from the end of your rope?"

"How long will it be until you reach the end of your rope?"

I fear you have come to the end of your rope."

When you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

"And if you're metastatic, you've pretty much reached the end of your rope.

But you, dear Karen, are at the end of your rope."

"Now you're in sorry shape, but old son I don't judge you to be at the end of your rope yet.

When you are at the end of your ropes and flying smoothly, bring out your fires.

Jean, you're at the end of your rope.

It means you're at the end of your rope and maybe one level above tinkers, knackers and street beggars in general.

"You're about at the end of your rope - Mrs. Bessie Forbes."

"At the end of your rope, Mr. Holloway?"

This gives them time to alter their behavior, and it's useful for you, too: Hearing yourself say out loud that you're at the end of your rope creates awareness.

In Kaufman's early 20's, he was the game show host of Comcast Cable's At the End of Your Rope.

"My dear, if you don't mind my saying so, you look as if you're at the end of your rope," Mr. Densmore said gently.

"And you dragged the Prince of Helium, Warlord of Barsoom for half a mile at the ends of your ropes!"

"It's like that old saying, when you get to the end of your rope, you tie a knot," said Adam Rita, the Argonauts' vice president for football operations.

"Just when you're at the end of your rope and you think there's no hope," Ms. Schultz said, "something or someone shows up to change your mind and give you faith."

In Chapter 1, "At the End of Your Rope," Dr. Ferber writes that a parent who is awakened repeatedly at night by a child feels "frustrated, helpless, worried and angry."

Sure, I've heard all the maxims - that genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, that when you reach the end of your rope, you should tie a knot and hang on.

As Lan had told him over and over during his lessons the day before, the limitation of taking to a tree is the fact you have no further choice, and if the enemy can climb too, you're at the end of your rope.

According to Amy Lee, "Going Under" is about a previous emotionally and physically damaging relationship, saying, "And when you're at the end of your rope, when you're at the point where you realize something has to change, that you can't go on living in the situation that you're in.