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the straw that breaks the camel's back
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 | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Suleiman | | - | History |
| Corinne | | ko-REEN (French), kə-REEN (English), kə-RIN (English) | French, English |
| Aherne | | [ə'hɜ:n] | |
| Eliasz | | EL-yahsh | Polish |
| Filippa | | fee-LIP-pah (Swedish) | Russian, Greek, Swedish, Italian |
| Makeda | | - | History |