堪忍袋(かんにんぶくろ)

かんにんぶくろ
noun
one's patience, limit of endurance
emotion
1. one's patience, limit of endurance
Figuratively, a bag or container of patience. Almost always used in the expression 堪忍袋の緒が切れる (one's patience snaps).
堪忍袋(かんにんぶくろ)の緒(お)が切(き)れた。
My patience snapped.
The most common usage of this word.
さすがに堪忍袋(かんにんぶくろ)の緒(お)が切(き)れそうだ。
I'm about to lose my patience.
何度(なんど)も同(おな)じミスを繰(く)り返(かえ)され、ついに堪忍袋(かんにんぶくろ)の緒(お)が切(き)れた。
After the same mistake was repeated over and over, my patience finally ran out.

Usage: Almost exclusively used in the idiom 堪忍袋(かんにんぶくろ)の緒(お)が切(き)れる (literally, the string of the patience bag snaps). The image is of a drawstring bag that finally bursts open.

Etymology: 堪忍(かんにん) means patience or forbearance, and 袋(ぶくろ) means bag. The 緒(お) is the string or cord that holds the bag shut.

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