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. Pygmalion by Shaw, George Bernard View in context More results

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