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忍无可忍

rěn wú kě rěn

4-character word Traditional 忍無可忍

What 忍无可忍 means

1. more than one can bear (idiom); at the end of one's patience
2. the last straw

The characters in 忍无可忍

• 忍rěnto bear; to endure; to tolerate
• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 可kě(prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit
• 忍rěnto bear; to endure; to tolerate

Example sentences

• 我忍无可忍了。
  Wǒ rěnwúkěrěn le.
  I cannot stomach it.
• 这些话，他听过不止一次，唯其不止一次，才忍无可忍。
  Zhèxiē huà, tā tīng guo bùzhǐyīcì, wéi qí bùzhǐyīcì, cái rěnwúkěrěn.
  He’d heard this more than once, but once was once more than he could bear.