Your excuses are starting to wear thin.
wear thin
idiomTo lessen or weaken over time, as from overuse.
The manager's patience began to wear thin after the team missed their third deadline in a row.
As the long winter dragged on, the villagers' supplies began to wear thin, forcing them to ration their remaining grain until the spring harvest.
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does the Pope wear a funny hat
Obviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.
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have a thin time of it
To be in a difficult or precarious situation due to one not having enough money.
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if the shoe fits, wear it
If a description fits, it is probably the case; if an insult accurately describes you, you must bear it; if you take offence at an insult that was only implicitly directed at you, you admit the insult is true enough to be recognizable.
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on thin ice
Dangerously, hazardously, delicately.
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out of thin air
From nowhere or nothing; from a non-existent or unknown source.
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skate on thin ice
To be (or to place oneself) in a risky, potentially dangerous or delicate situation.
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spread oneself thin
To commit oneself to too many projects, so that there is little chance of completing them all satisfactorily.
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thick and thin
Both good and bad times.