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What is the story of the last straw?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The original story is from an Arab proverb, but Charles Dickens is commonly credited with popularizing the phrase.

Dickens:

A quotation from chapter 2 of Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son (1848): 'As the last straw breaks the laden camel's back, this piece of underground information crushed the sinking spirits of Mr Dombey'. This colourful variant of the older 'last feather that breaks the horse's back' is now proverbial as 'it is the [last] straw that breaks the camel's back'. The reference is to the carrying of loads by animals.

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15y ago

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