LAST STRAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does last straw mean? 

• LAST STRAW (noun)
  The noun LAST STRAW has 1 sense:

1. the final irritation that stretches your patience beyond the limit

  Familiarity information: LAST STRAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAST STRAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The final irritation that stretches your patience beyond the limit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("last straw" is a kind of...):

aggravation; irritation; provocation (unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment)

 Context examples 

It was the last straw, but Martin gripped the arms of his chair and talked and listened for half an hour.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was pretty and soft, but she weighed one hundred and twenty pounds—a lusty last straw to the load dragged by the weak and starving animals.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)