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straw that breaks the camel's back
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the straw that breaks the camel's back
the last in a series of unpleasant events which finally makes you feel that you cannot continue to accept a bad situation. Losing my job was bad enough but having the relationship end like that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
See also: back, break, straw, that

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