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Last straw

noun

The final irritation that stretches your patience beyond the limit.

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"Last straw" Quotes from Famous Books

... least. There's no other way to manage it and I fancy you know what would happen if you didn't hand it over. There is such a thing as the last straw." ...

— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton

... it's your duty. You know it's your duty. You know perfectly well. It's only these rotten, silly, degenerate, decadent fools who've got ideas into you——" The sentence staggered under its load of adjectives like a camel under the last straw and collapsed. "See?" ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... "The last straw was his bringing that ridiculous charge against Buck Green," Mrs. Archer interrupted with unexpected spirit. "That stamped him for what he was; because a nicer, cleaner, better-mannered young man I've seldom seen. He could no more have stolen cattle ...

— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

... The last straw upon Carl's breaking back was the arrival of his father, who descended upon him with a bass viol, an enormous basket-bed for his beloved poodles, and a large bundle of debts, as well as an increased luggage of eccentricities. While ...

— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 • Rupert Hughes

... cried Crass, eagerly clutching at this last straw. 'The thing sounds all right till you comes to look into it, ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

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