But Archie had reached the end of his tether.

"It seemed he'd finally reached the end of his tether," Young observes at another point, about someone who hangs himself.

Marching on Rome is the very end of his tether, and he'll battle the odds right down to the last moment rather than do it.

Somewhere amongst the cases a voice reached the end of its tether.

It looks to me as though young Freddie had about reached the end of his tether this time.

How to get on we did not know; indeed it seemed to us that we had about reached the end of our tether.

Here, then, tonight, 8 he had written in his diary, awe have reached the end of our tether.

Having reached the end of her tether, Maria eventually reports Frank to the police.

When he reaches the end of his tether, he breaks it.

This caused Divinius to reach the end of his tether.