- a rope or chain used to tie an animal to something, allowing it to move around in a small areaWord Originlate Middle English: from Old Norse tjóthr, from a Germanic base meaning ‘fasten’.
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Idioms
See tether in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe at the end of your tether (British English)
(North American English be at the end of your rope)
- (informal) to feel that you cannot deal with a difficult situation any more because you are too tired, worried, etc.
- You’d better let her know you’re safe. She’s at the end of her tether.
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