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sick of

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sick of (someone or something)

Thoroughly annoyed or exasperated by someone or something. I am so sick of all these political campaign ads. They're on all the time each election, and every year they get nastier and nastier. I got the feeling that he was getting pretty sick of me by the end of the day. I'm just sick of feeling so tired all the time.

See also: of, sick

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*sick (and tired) of someone or something

Fig. tired of someone or something, especially something that one must do again and again or someone or something that one must deal with repeatedly. (*Typically: be ~; become ~; get ~; grow ~.) I am sick and tired of cleaning up after you. Mary was sick of being stuck in traffic.

See also: of, sick

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

ˈsick of somebody/something

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ˌsick and ˈtired of somebody/something

(informal) bored with or annoyed by somebody, or by something that has been happening for a long time which you want to stop: I’m sick and tired of hearing you complaining all day long.

See also: of, sick, somebody, something

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References in periodicals archive

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I am sick of the implication that I will be consumed by satanic lust if I gaze upon a female face.

And I am sick of interviews with Aishah Azmi, the Muslim teacher suspended for wearing a veil at a Church of England school in Yorkshire because, quite frankly, I can hardly understand a bloody word she says with that black sheet over her face.

KEEP THE FAITH.. TO YOURSELF

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