1. One's limit in patience, temper, or equanimity, after which one loses control of one's emotions. Likened to the temperature at which a given liquid boils. I was at my boiling point with the kids last night. All their fighting and shouting drove me crazy!

What does the idiom low boiling point mean?

To tend to become angry quickly or with little provocation. (Likened to the temperature at which a given liquid boils.) ...

How do you use boiling point in a sentence?

A situation may build up over a period of time and be about to reach boiling point. We are paying too much for carrying on this particular policy of simply keeping enthusiasm at boiling point. Temperature in the teaching profession has reached boiling point.