I read this today too. I think it's a corruption of getting a monkey off your back - meaning putting an end to a curse, a hex, etc.
"After losing in 6 consecutive grand slam finals, andy murray finally won one at the us open in 2012. once he got that monkey off his back, he moved towards the number one spot"
who crosed the desert on camel back
a camel's hump is located at the back of a camel.
The kind of camel that has two humps on its back is called a Bactrian camel.
The type of camel that has two humps on its back is called a Bactrian camel.
The type of camel that has 2 humps on its back is called a Bactrian camel.
The Camel's Back was created on 2008-10-27.
It means working your tail off ... OK that did not help ... So to answer your question ... It refers to a Camel ... a Camel stores there water in the hump the more the camel has to work... By traveling with cargo on it's back or with a person ... The Camel has to drink more of it water from it receive ...That being from it's hump... Making it's hump get smaller and smaller ... So because there is not water left you get busting ...as if a bottle had bust ...
The camel hump is the round structure you see on its back. It is use to store fat not water.
The Bactrian camel is the species that has two humps on its back.
The hump/bump(s) on the back of a camel is called protuberance. Meaning "stick out".
A camel
speech on it was the last straw that broke the camel's back