the final/last straw

Definition

› the last in a series of unpleasant events which finally makes you stop accepting a bad situation: Last week he came home drunk at five in the morning, and that was the last straw.

(Definition of the final/last straw from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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