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at one's wit's end
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Also, at wits' end . Completely puzzled and perplexed, not knowing what to do. For example, I've tried every possible source without success, and now I'm at my wit's end . This idiom, which uses wit in the sense of “mental faculties,†appeared in Piers Ploughman (c. 1377).Advertisement
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