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final/last straw |
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the final/last straw the last in a series of unpleasant events which finally makes you feel that you cannot continue to accept a bad situation. One night he came home drunk at 5 o'clock in the morning and that was the last straw. He'd been unhappy at work for a long time but the last straw came when he was refused promotion. Lucy leaving was the last straw for him and he pretty much gave up the will to live. (often + for) |
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``Reimbursement was the final straw, and that was the decision for it to close,'' Weder said. Morgan Stanley's repeated failures to produce e-mails were the proverbial final straw for Judge Elizabeth Maas, who issued a pretrial ruling that Morgan Stanley had conspired with Sunbeam to defraud Perelman. Insiders say the final straw came when Indiana Pacers star Ron Arrest asked his coach if he could take off the first month of the season, because he was fatigued after promoting his rap "album. |
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Final Straw
