Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is be at one’s wits’ end and it’s meaning is “be worried, be confused, be perplexed, be irritated, be annoyed that you are unsure what to do next“.
Example Sentence: While endowing senior citizens with a silvered halo of respectability, the ageing process inevitably renders them forgetful, absent-minded and myopic — frailties that hound them, often leaving them exasperated and at their wits’ end.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article Battling old age blues and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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