at one's wit's end meaning

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[American idiom]
at the limits of one's mental resources.
I’m at my wit's end with this problem. I cannot figure it out.
Tom could do no more. He was at his wit's end.

[American slang]
Fig. at the limits of one's mental resources.
  I'm at my wit's end with this problem. I cannot figure it out.
  Tom could do no more. He was at his wit's end.

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