The last of these rows seems to have been the last straw.
I've put up with a lot of crap from him, but that's the last straw.
But when I caught him using my toothbrush that was the last straw, so I kicked him out!
There are two people who love each other, but they can't get along with each other. When do you think it's the last straw?
He lost his knife on the way home, then he fell down, and when he broke a shoe lace, that was the last straw and he began to cry.
That's the last straw.
Mr. A's cheating was the last straw for his wife.
A natural disaster is often the last straw for pier-owners.
John has always been a trouble maker at school but when he set fire to someone's locker, it was the last straw and he was expelled.
For those who still harbored hopes that the Chinese team would somehow miraculously qualify for the next round, the defeat by the Koreans in Shanghai, not totally unexpectedly, was the last straw.
The anti-Chinese riots on the eve of the fall of Suharto saw countless mobsters looting and burning Chinese districts. The violence and lawlessness shocked the world. It was also the last straw for Chinese Indonesians who had always suffered in silence.
For Sadat, the Moscow summit communique was the last straw.
He was often tardy, and the last straw was him being late for her best friend's 40th birthday party.
You might think that, when Mr Brooks heard that the Philippine government is considering opening some of its protected areas to mining, it would have been the last straw.
That was the last straw.
The hotel was expensive, the food poor, and the Bad weather was the last straw.
Grasping at straws, straw-man arguments, the last straws and the straws that break so many camels' backs all attest to that.
The last straw breaks the camel's back.
When the dinner lady said I put too much salad on my plate, it was the last straw.
For the past few months, father has been overworking, doing all sorts of extra jobs, and the organization of the conference which he was asked to take care of last week was the last straw that broke the camel's back: he had a stroke and was hospitalized.
Coming so shortly on the heels of the subprime crisis, the debate over the debt ceiling and the budget deficit is the last straw.
The last straw, however, was a small, irritating detail: The smell of burnt cheese.
It is the last straw that Breaks the camel's Back.
For him the Church's decision to allow the ordination of women had been the last straw.
"Weather doesn't really cause (a person) to have road rage, but it can be a 'last straw' when other things have already caused them to feel irritable," he added.
If we knock off another ten per cent on top of that, it's going to be the last straw, and it's quite likely they'll come out on strike, which will put us in a tight spot.
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