TO GET / BE FED UP WITH

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Daily Vitamin. I hope you had a wonderful weekend.

We are going to dedicate this week of Daily Vitamin lessons to words and expressions related to the word or concept FULL (lleno). 

We will start today by reviewing an expression that we explained in a past Daily Vitamin.

Today's expression is: fed up with

It means: to be annoyed or bored with something or someone.

The word fed comes from the verb feed (alimentar), so we can imagine the expression fed up with to mean that we have 'taken in' or 'ingested' somebody else's actions to the limit. We cannot "take" anymore of their behaviour.

Example 1:
I'm getting fed up with Margaret's continual complaints about my cooking. If she doesn't like it, she should cook for herself!

Example 2:
Everybody is fed up with playing this game. Why don't we do something else?

You can also use the adjective fed up, without specifying what you are fed up with.

Example 3:
Elaine looks a bit fed up. Perhaps we should leave her alone.

⇒ I encourage you to write your own sentence with today's expression in order to get some writing practice in English. You can post your sentence on one of our social media sites (Facebook or Bluesky) and we will give you feedback about your writing ASAP.

Tomorrow we will learn another common expression related to the concept FULL.

Enjoy the rest of your day!