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Idiom: The last straw
Most of us are patient, and we can handle a lot of disappointment or pressure.
However, there comes a time when just one more thing—one more bad experience, one more late train, one more night of working overtime, one more cold coffee, or one more ignorant comment from a coworker—makes us snap, and we lose our patience.
That one more thing is the last straw.
As I said earlier, most of us are patient, but there is a point when we will not be patient anymore.
The last straw is the thing that makes us snap, lose our temper, quit our job, etc.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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