suffer fools gladly

verb

Definitions

  1. To be tolerant of stupidity or incompetence in other people.

    • For ye ſuffre foles gladly be cauſe that ye youre ſelves are wyſe.
    • He [Henry Sweet] was, I believe, not in the least an illnatured man: very much the opposite, I should say; but he would not suffer fools gladly.

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