List of synonyms from "last offices" to synonyms from "lastly"
Discover all the synonyms available for the terms lasting fame, last rites, last stop, lastingness, last resource, last stage and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.
Definition of the day : « last straw »
- noun breaking point
- And if she goes away and hides from him, it'll be the last straw.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- It seemed the last straw, somehow, that the lift should have gone wrong.
- Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
- This failure was the last straw, as far as Goodyear's friends were concerned.
- Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson
- But Benedick would not kill Claudio, and it was the last straw of all.
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- He was like the proverbial camel, which succumbs beneath the last straw.
- Extract from : « The Golden Shoemaker » by J. W. Keyworth
- But, as in all great crises, it is the simple thing that proves the last straw, so in this.
- Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan
- This proved to be the last straw which broke the unfortunate camel's back.
- Extract from : « The Citizen-Soldier » by John Beatty
- Somehow it would be about the last straw to have you leave now.
- Extract from : « The Story of Glass » by Sara Ware Bassett
- For Anne's defects were only the last straw added to the burden which Henry bore.
- Extract from : « Henry VIII. » by A. F. Pollard
- This was the last straw on the camel's back, as the saying is.
- Extract from : « Put Yourself in His Place » by Charles Reade