I. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the end of your tether/rope
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By the time Katherine and Gary came to see me, they were at the end of their rope.
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By then Diana was truly at the end of her tether.
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Five hours later Mr Humble was at the end of his tether.
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However, at other times I feel at the end of my tether.
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Of course, when Carl walked to the end of his rope, he fell like a load of bricks.
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Rich, meanwhile, has come to the end of his rope on these negotiations.
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The court heard they were both at the end of their tether.
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With all that had happened with Anthony, he was near the end of his tether.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the end of their financial tether , they converted Outward Bound into a charter yacht.
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By then Diana was truly at the end of her tether .
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Five hours later Mr Humble was at the end of his tether .
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However, at other times I feel at the end of my tether .
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In fact, the community was near the end of its financial tether .
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The bull had got loose from his tether .
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Then I reached them, seized them, ripped them free of their tethers, and flung them to the embankment.
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With all that had happened with Anthony, he was near the end of his tether .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My horse had been tethered to a post, but somehow it escaped.
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The farmer tethered a goat in the field and left it there for the day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the first steep slope of Great Ararat they tethered their horses to a thorn tree and hobbled them.
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He stood up and walked beside her to the edge of the wood where his horse was tethered.
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One Victorian explorer reported that he could catch these cats and tether them near his food stores to keep the rats down.
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Though designed by the master modernist, Richard Meier, Getty Center appears intentionally tethered to the past.
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With Amantani fresh in my mind it seemed to me that more than the cattle were tethered here.