look up, yet, not suffer fools gladly

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I feel sorry for people who don’t suffer fools.

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not suffer fools gladly

Be impatient or intolerant towards people one regards as foolish or unintelligent:he was a perfectionist who didn’t suffer fools gladly

With biblical allusion to 2 Cor. 11–19

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2 Corinthians 11:19 You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise!

¹⁹因為像你們那樣明智的人，竟也甘心容忍了那些狂妄的人！

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• He admits he is impatient and doesn't suffer fools gladly, but, contrary to the impression given of him in the press, is ‘prepared to listen to people.’
• She's very easy-going but she doesn't suffer fools gladly.
• Naipaul, awarded the Nobel Prize in 2001, is a famously bilious traveler; he doesn't suffer fools gladly, and he never romanticizes the grim conditions and hypocrisies that he encounters.

yet 

Pronunciation: /jɛt/ 

ADVERB

1Up until the present or a specified or implied time; by now or then:I haven’t told anyone else yetaren’t you ready to go yet?I have yet to be convinced[WITH SUPERLATIVE]: the congress was widely acclaimed as the best yet

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1.1[WITH NEGATIVE] As soon as the present or a specified or implied time:wait, don’t go yet

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1.2From now into the future for a specified length of time:I hope to continue for some time yet

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1.3Referring to something that will or may happen in the future:further research may yet explain the enigmaI know she’s alive and I’ll find her yet

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2Still; even (used to emphasize increase or repetition):snow, snow, and yet more snowyet another diet bookthe rations were reduced yet again

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3In spite of that; nevertheless:every week she gets worse, and yet it could go on for years

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CONJUNCTION

But at the same time; but nevertheless:the path was dark, yet I slowly found my way

look up

(Of a situation) improve:things seemed to be looking up at last