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the final/last straw
idiom(alsothe straw that breaks the camel's back)
C1
the last in a series of unpleasant events that finally makes you feel that you cannot continue to accept a bad situation: （压垮骆驼的）最后一根稻草；使人最终崩溃的一击
Losing my job was bad enough, but being evicted was the final straw.丢了工作已经够糟了，但被房东赶出门后我彻底崩溃了。
She's always been rude to me, but it was the last straw when she started insulting my mother.她一直对我很粗鲁，但让我终于无法忍受的是她竟然开始辱骂我的母亲。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
abyss
adversity
at your worstidiom
Augean
bad hair day
epidemic
hardness
have a bumpy rideidiom
have someone over a barrelidiom
pall
purgatory
push factor
quagmire
quicksand
rabbit hole
scrape
strait
the Augean Stablesidiom
the hard wayidiom
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