straw

/strɔː/ noun

Translation

LONG STEMS [U] › the long, dried stems of plants such as wheat (= plant for grain), often given to animals for sleeping on and eating

saman

a straw hat92111

TUBE [C] › a thin plastic or paper tube that you use for drinking through

kamış, pipet

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the final/last straw › the last in a series of unpleasant events which finally makes you stop accepting a bad situation

bardağı taşıran son damla, sabrın tükenme noktası

Last week he came home drunk at five in the morning, and that was the last straw.1786

(Definition of straw noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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