What it means is that your over worked or too much work like I would borrow a cats paw.
Busy work, chores
It refers to the end of the day's work on the railroads where the wagons were uncoupled
There is no such phrase as "eat you".
There is no such phrase. There is a word rampage. It is of Scottish origin, perhaps from RAMP, to rear up.
"on the rocks"
The Spanish for "I have put" is he puesto, could this be the origin?
There are two verbs in this sentence: dashed, and save. The phrase "to save the drowning child" is a prepositional phrase, and therefore the primary action verb in this sentence is dashed.
sumething
The phrase "the last straw" originates from the idiom "the straw that broke the camel's back," which refers to a seemingly minor or routine occurrence that triggers a disproportionate reaction due to the accumulation of previous stress. Just as a camel can carry a heavy load until one final straw causes it to collapse, this phrase describes a situation where a small event leads to a significant outcome.
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