"Well, the nerve of Jaelot's mayor, to dare to suggest what I should wear in the presence of his ridiculous wife!"

As though my nerves were not worn down enough!

Her nerves were worn down enough that this was beginning to make her angry.

He realized then that his own nerves were wearing away.

"But now, my nerves are wearing thin."

After years of hiding them and carrying them about, the nerves of all three people were worn with the strain.

Her nerves were worn thinner than the knees of a compulsive penitent's trousers.

With charges and countercharges flying across the Atlantic, the nerves of airline executives are wearing thin.

But any army's nerve wore thin if its men were fought as hard as they could be and then three steps more besides.

Thus it came about that the conquerors grew afraid of the conquered and their nerves wore thin and they shot at shadows in the night.