Usually means: Final limit of tolerance reached.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. last straw, the last straw: Merriam-Webster
  2. the last straw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. last straw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. last straw, the last straw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. last straw: Vocabulary.com
  6. last straw: Wiktionary
  7. last straw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. last straw: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. last straw, the last straw: Dictionary.com
  10. Last straw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. last straw: Rhymezone
  12. last straw: FreeDictionary.org
  13. last straw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. The last straw, last straw: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Last straw: bizterms.net

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The last straw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The last straw: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The last straw, last straw: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. last straw: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (last straw)

noun:  (idiomatic, almost always preceded by the) A small addition to a burden which causes it to exceed the capacity.

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