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单词 the last (or final) straw
释义

the last (or final) straw

A further difficulty or annoyance, typically minor in itself but coming on top of a series of difficulties, that makes a situation unbearable: his affair was the last straw...
  • But the recent incident, just two doors up from her house, involving a truck driver who has since admitted being over the drink drive limit, was the final straw.
  • The problem of the compensation payment, coupled with difficulties in keeping up with Inland Revenue repayments, proved the final straw for the club.
  • Shops and vehicles have been targeted in the latest series of attacks in Kew and it has proved the final straw for local people.
From the proverb the last straw breaks the (laden) camel's back
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