At One's Wit's End?
Also, at Wits' End. Completely Puzzled and Perplexed, Not Knowing What to Do. for Example, I've Tried Every Possible Source Without Success, and Now I'm at My...
Also, at wits' end. Completely puzzled and perplexed, not knowing what to do. For example, I've tried every possible source without success, and now I'm at my wit's end. This idiom, which uses wit in the sense of “mental faculties,” appeared in Piers Ploughman (c. 1377).
How do you use wit's end in a sentence?
— My husband is at his wits end with his job and I'm afraid he's going to get really angry and quit.
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Where did the phrase wit's end come from?
What's the origin of the phrase 'At his wit's end'?
The earliest text that refers to people being at their wit's end is William Langland's Middle English narrative poem The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, 1370-90: Astronomyens also aren at hir wittes ende. [Astronomers are also at their wit's end.]
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