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It is used in reference to a small, seemingly insignificant, action that leads to, usually disastrous, far-reaching consequences. The phrase refers to the image of a camel so laden with objects on its back that a further small addition of weight, small as a straw may be, is enough to break its back. The stark contrast of the light straw and the highly-regarded strength of the camel's back furthermore suggests a precipitous interpretation for the metaphor.
If you keep loading straw,piece by piece, onto a Camels back even though one piece of straw is very light sooner or later one more piece is more than the Camels back can take. = You have pushed it to far.
It means you can't take any more. If you add one more thing even something as small as a single piece of straw you will finally collapse. The straw that broke the camels back is an idiom and a metaphor for a catastrophe caused by an insignificant change: A camel is loaded up with straw, and single straws are added to the load, and the last straw to be added breaks its back.
It was the cumulative effect that caused the catastrophic breaking of the back, but it appeared to be a tiny change that caused it.
The straw that broke the camels back, is the last straw, the thing that caused the situation to collapse...
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What is another phrase that means the same as a nail in the coffin?
I believe that the phrases "the straw that broke the camel's back" and "the last straw" mean the same thing as "nail in the coffin".Example sentences:The third time she misssed work, it was the straw that broke the camel's back and she was fired.The third time she missed work was the nail in the coffinand she was fired.The third time she missed work was the last straw and she was fired.
What does tatami mean?
Tatami is a type of Japanese flooring made from rice,straw with a covering of woven soft rush straw.
What does felch mean?
It is when a male ejaculates in some ones butt and sucks it out with a straw.
What does 'exchange' mean?
It means to trade one thing for something else. If you bought a lamp that was broke when you got it home, you can exchange it for an unbroken lamp back at the store.
What does bmfs mean?
Broke my f****** scale
What does that's the last straw of Phillip mean?
It means that is your last chance you have gotten on my nerves too many times and you just blew your last chance. There is a old saying: "The straw that broke the camel's back." Camels are reputed to be able to carry massive load, often more than a wagon can. But great as the carrying capacity of a camel is you can still over-load him. One such example is of gradually adding single strands of straw to a camel until you effect a weight that will 'break the camel's' back. This final straw has been likened to the cummulative effects of insults or out-rages that a tolerant ruler will no longer abide.The saying "the straw that broke the camel's back" means that if you pile enough of anything up, it will become too heavy eventually.This has become a saying meaning "I have too much to do, and I am stressing out."The saying "that's the last straw" comes from that original saying, and means "That's it, I have had enough!"They are saying that whatever just happened WAS the straw that broke the camel's back.The phrase the last straw asks us to imagine that we are loading various burdens onto a camel, so the camel can transport them for us, and we put on more and more, to the limit of the camel's strength, and in the end, we just add one straw (which weighs almost nothing) but since we have reached the limit of the camel's strength, that last straw is too much, and the camel collapses. So the last straw is the final burden that is too much to bear.The long version of this idiom is, "The final straw that broke the camel's back." This isn't a drinking straw, it's like hay. Imagine you're in the desert, and you need a camel to carry your straw. You load it on, and on, and on, it starts buckling it's legs BUT it fits. You put on just one more straw and it breaks the camel's back. The straws are supposed to be mistake. Every time you do something bad, you're adding a straw to the camel's back. You did one last thing.. And it broke the camel's back. It's not that one thing that gets you grounded or fired or expelled or whatever, it's the combined crimes you commited: All the straw.it means you are very angry and have had enough It refers to the straw that broke the camel's back, because the camel is already carrying its maximum weight of straw before one more straw is added, and it is used as a metaphor for the last provocation before patience is exhausted.
What does last staw mean?
It means the final trivial, thing that then causes serious consequences. It is a reference to a moral tale about someone who,straw by straw, loaded his camel. (In some cultures a donkey). A straw by itself is trivial in weight but if you keep adding them then the weight becomes significant. Finally the owner put on 'the last straw' and the camel fell down, its back broken from the weight of all the straws. This is the last straw or the straw that broke the camels back. In itself nothing but added to all the others was unbearable. Similar things can happen with machines or in relationships between people. Many things, by themselves unimportant, until you reach a stage where you have a breaking point.
What does the final straw to her suffering mean?
It should be "the last straw," which refers to the fable where a man kept loading a camel's back until he had put on one straw too many, and the camel's back broke. That was the last straw. If your phrase means anything, which is by no means certain, it would be " the single additional element that made her unable to bear her suffering."
What does the back of the Virginia seal mean?
how we broke vrigina seal
What does the last straw mean as an idiom?
To declare that something you heard, read, witnessed or experienced is the last straw is to declare that you have reached the limit of your patience and are now prepared to act in opposition to that which was heard, read, witnessed or experienced. I assume it is a reference to the straw that broke the camel's back. Since every animal has a limit to how much weight it can bear on its back before its back breaks, it follows that there must be an individual piece of straw the weight of which is enough to put the load on camel's back past the breaking point.
You can ride it in the dessert?
You probably mean camels.
What does it mean when a guy flirts with his ex-girlfriend when he broke up with her?
He probably got his feelings back for her
What is the sentence that's the las straw used in figrative language?
Well, honey, the phrase you're looking for is "the last straw that broke the camel's back." It's a metaphorical expression used to describe the final small thing that causes a situation to become unbearable or leads to a breakdown. So, when someone says "it was the last straw," they mean it was the final irritating thing that pushed them over the edge.
What mean hump?
Hump; as in a physical aberration in a rounded shape. Eg. Camels hump. It can also mean creating a back and forth motion with your hips onto an object for sexual pleasure.
When a camels hump shrinks and falls to one side does it mean the camel needs water?
no camels dont store water in the hump. lop sided humps are caused by the hump becoming detached from the back on one side and will never repair itself.
Why do camels have tough mouths?
Do you mean two humps?
What does dreaming of big camels mean?
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