The dinner was the
last straw; you might have dispensed with it."
This is the
last straw. I will no longer be housekeeper for you if you don't send away that alligator."
"This is the
last straw," said Pickles, "let us close the shop."
Of course, it isn't the tennis--that was only the
last straw to all I have been feeling for weeks.
As to the Sunday school--it had been the resignation of its superintendent and two of its teachers that had been the
last straw, and that had sent the harassed minister to the quiet woods for prayer and meditation.
"I did not mean to be nasty, but this accident is the proverbial
last straw. It seems to me that I have borne all that I can.
It was the
last straw, but Martin gripped the arms of his chair and talked and listened for half an hour.
"The devil, that's the
last straw," he muttered, grinding his teeth, "no, that would not suit me .
For some time past he had been feeling ashamed of being seen in such company, and this had proved the
last straw.
The Reverend Wilfred, who had been waiting for him, pale and impatient, as if this little delay were the
last straw for his nerves, led him immediately to his favourite corner of the church, that part of the gallery closest to the carved roof and lit by the wonderful window with the angel.
When he departed at the top of his speed with thirty-two golden sovereigns of my own hard-earned savings it was the
last straw. I had reserved that money in case my difficulties came to the worst.
News, the photos of Miley kissing another woman were the
last straw and despite her and Liam being 'separated for a while', they were the
last straw.