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Synonyms for last straw

Grammar : Noun

Définition of last straw

noun breaking point

Example sentences :

And if she goes away and hides from him, it'll be the last straw.
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

It seemed the last straw, somehow, that the lift should have gone wrong.
Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker

This failure was the last straw, as far as Goodyear's friends were concerned.
Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson

But Benedick would not kill Claudio, and it was the last straw of all.
Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine

He was like the proverbial camel, which succumbs beneath the last straw.
Extract from : « The Golden Shoemaker » by J. W. Keyworth

But, as in all great crises, it is the simple thing that proves the last straw, so in this.
Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan

This proved to be the last straw which broke the unfortunate camel's back.
Extract from : « The Citizen-Soldier » by John Beatty

Somehow it would be about the last straw to have you leave now.
Extract from : « The Story of Glass » by Sara Ware Bassett

For Anne's defects were only the last straw added to the burden which Henry bore.
Extract from : « Henry VIII. » by A. F. Pollard

This was the last straw on the camel's back, as the saying is.
Extract from : « Put Yourself in His Place » by Charles Reade

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