sick to the back teeth

English

Phrase

sick to the back teeth

(Britain, idiomatic) Extremely annoyed about, fed up, tired of.
- 2019 December 18, Andrew Roden, “Rail fares to rise by an average of 2.7% in January”, in Rail, page 17:
  "Passengers are sick to their back teeth of paying for boardroom largesse and eye-watering fares."
Synonym: fed up to the back teeth

References

“sick to the teeth of” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.

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