Sick and tired Informal

Thoroughly exhausted and deeply annoyed by something that has gone on far too long.

It combines physical weariness and emotional frustration into one intensified complaint, usually about a recurring, unresolved irritation.

The phrase pairs two related but distinct discomforts — physical illness (“sick”) and exhaustion (“tired”) — into a single reinforced expression of being at one’s limit, a construction documented in English from the eighteenth century. Doubling near-synonyms for emphasis is a common pattern in English idiom formation (compare “safe and sound” or “rough and ready”), and “sick and tired” belongs to this broader family, using the accumulation of two related complaints to intensify frustration beyond what either word could convey alone.

I’m sick and tired of doing all the housework myself.

She’s sick and tired of her coworkers arriving late every day.

We’re sick and tired of the constant construction noise outside.

A: Are you okay? B: Honestly, I’m sick and tired of this whole situation.