sick and tired
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Meaning · English
Extremely frustrated or annoyed
Literally: physically ill and fatigued
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
" I'm sick and tired of it, " he said.
I got sick and tired of wet - nursing all these singers.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed on Wikipedia “Irreversible binomial” (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-29). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-30; pending editor spot-check.
Equivalents & related
Near equivalent
chán cơm thèm phở
(verb) to be sick and tired of cooked rice and long for pho
Tiếng Việt
Near equivalent
chán cơm thèm phở
(verb) to be sexually sick and tired of one's spouse and long for sexual thrill from someone else
Tiếng Việt
Near equivalent
chán chường
(verb) to be sick and tired (of); fed up (with)
Tiếng Việt
Near equivalent
chán ngán
(verb) to be sick and tired (of); fed up (with)
Tiếng Việt
Near equivalent
chán phè
(verb) to be sick and tired (of); fed up (with)
Tiếng Việt
Common questions
What does “sick and tired” mean?
Extremely frustrated or annoyed Literally: physically ill and fatigued
Is “sick and tired” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.
What is the closest equivalent?
“chán cơm thèm phở” (Tiếng Việt) — near equivalent.