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not suffer fools

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not suffer fools (gladly)
to be unwilling to deal with stupid people. Phyllis is intelligent and impatient, and she does not suffer fools gladly.
See also: fool, suffer

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He was, I believe, not in the least an ill-natured man: very much the opposite, I should say; but he would not suffer fools gladly.
 
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