sick and tired of (something)

Exceedingly wearied by, bored of, or exasperated with something. I'm sick and tired of doing my boss's errands. If something doesn't change soon, I'm going to quit! I was all gung-ho about this graduate program when I first began, but I must admit that I've grown sick and tired of these boring lectures.

sick and tired

Also, sick or tired to death . Thoroughly weary or bored, as in I'm sick and tired of these begging phone calls, or She was sick to death of that endless recorded music. These hyperbolic expressions of exasperation imply one is weary to the point of illness or death. The first dates from the late 1700s, the first variant from the late 1800s, and the second variant from the first half of the 1700s.

See also: and, sick, tired

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

sick and tired

annoyed about or bored with something and unwilling to put up with it any longer. informal

See also: and, sick, tired

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017

sick and tired

Thoroughly weary, discouraged, or bored.

See also: and, sick, tired

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

sick and tired

Disgusted, completely weary of. This expression, also put as sick or tired to death, suggests one is fed up to the point of illness or death. J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur used it in Sketches of 18th-Century America (1783): “I am quite sick and tired of these pretended conscientious non-fighting mortals.”

See also: and, sick, tired

See also:

References in periodicals archive

I AM sick and tired of people criticising Polish workers for taking jobs off English workers.

Vent your spleen

I AM sick and tired of reading about stupid comments for more facilities for skateboarders.

Vent your spleen

This happens time and time again in front of customers and I am sick and tired of it.

Vent your spleen

I AM sick and tired of these conceited self-centred anti-smoking freaks who want to ban smoking in the whole of Newcastle and at the same time pay a director of anti-smoking a pounds 60,000 salary.

Vent your spleen

I AM sick and tired of many traders in Newcastle who are selling alcohol to children under the age of 18.

Vent your spleen

Ricky Taylor mentioned the polls showing the SNP in the lead and claims Scots are sick and tired of Ruth and her party.

Packed venue heard Davidson speak

'Sick and tired' of a 'pork' allegations, Senate President Vicente 'Tito' Sotto III now wants a reenacted national budget.

'Sick and tired' of pork talk, Sotto moves for reenacted budget

MANILA BULLETIN MANILA PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte admitted he was "sick and tired" of the brazen rebel assaults that left many soldiers and cops dead so the government decided to purchase new weapons.

Duterte buys new weapons worth a billion pesos to arm soldiers

The President admitted he was "sick and tired" of the brazen rebel assaults that left many soldiers and cops dead so the government decided to purchase new weapons.

Duterte spends a billion pesos to acquire new guns for soldiers, cops

Sick and tired of the long queues for henna applications, especially on chand raat, Mahjabeen Fatima, Raima Naz, Hina Ahmed and Anam Zakir of Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology had made a superficial henna hand decoration.

Students exhibit expertise in robotic manipulation

"I thought it was disgusting, absolutely disgusting," she told Australia's Sky News, criticising the "20 minutes" sequence featuring a man playing a didgeridoo."I've got nothing against the Aboriginal people but I'm sick and tired of being made to feel as if I'm a second-class citizen in my own country.

Australian politician slams indigenous focus at Games

"All my life I've been sick and tired. Now I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired," said Hamer.

A leader for us all

He said: "I got to the point where I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Why I use cannabis to treat ill health; Craig is just one of the drug users risking arrest to help fight pain

Only if you are sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Views of Wales

They got to the point where they were sick and tired of working hard and having nothing to show for it.

When that lightbulb comes on, it's dazzling