Sick and Tired of Pedantry ?

For many years there was a difference between being bored, tired and fed up.  You would be bored and fed up with things, but you would be sick and /or tired of them.  But a recent item in The Week told us of a centenarian who had taken up a temporary office role because he was "bored of retirement". 

'Sick of' sounds all right (what about 'sick of the palsy' ?), though perhaps sick with the palsy might be OK.  I have a feeling that I have also somewhere spotted a "fed up of", but I can't prove it just now.  That, of course, would be barmy.  If the idiom is to retain any sense of metaphor, remember that you can be fed (whether up or not) with food, but certainly not of it.   The verbs 'bored' or 'boring' should probably be used with the preposition by.  It bores you, so you are bored by it.

The same argument would suggest that you should be tired by things, not of them.  But it's too late to hope for that, I am afraid. Anyway, aren't we all tired of pedantry ?

Sick and Tired of Pedantry ?