suffer fools gladly
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suffer fools gladly (third-person singular simple present suffers fools gladly, present participle suffering fools gladly, simple past and past participle suffered fools gladly)
- (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To be tolerant of stupidity or incompetence in other people.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 11:19:
- For ye suffer fooles gladly, seeing ye your selues are wise.
- 1912, George Bernard Shaw, “Preface”, in Pygmalion[1]:
- 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.