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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Elfriede	el-FREE-də	German
Lauren	LAWR-ən	English
Gilbert	GIL-bərt (English), zheel-BER (French), KHIL-bərt (Dutch), GIL-bert (German)	English, French, Dutch, German, Ancient Germanic
Woodrow	['wudrəu]
MartÍ	-	Catalan
Cinderella	sin-də-RE-lə (English)	Literature