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Meanings of break the camel in English

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Usage of break the camel in English
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Oh, it took a large number of straws to break the camel's back.
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore
2
All she could think was that one more lie would break the camel's back.
The Last Shot
3
This was the last feather which was to break the camel's back of our patience.
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
4
This was the feather to break the camel's back.
Miles Wallingford / Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
5
Miss Shelby's extra order is just the last straw that'll break the camel's back, I'm afraid.
Cicely and Other Stories
6
In any case, a straw must surely break the camel's back -and it may as well be this.
The Guardian
7
The burden twice became so great, indeed, as to awaken the fear that another straw would break the camel's back.
The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academ...
8
One ought to despise nothing nowadays: the veriest straw of talent may be that which is to break the camel's back.'
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 / With a P...
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But the Centralia raid was the straw that broke the camel's back.
The Centralia Conspiracy
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It was the dog that broke the camel's back of his patience.
Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
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I wish I could see that communication that broke the camel's back.
Christian Science
12
It is the last pound, you know, that breaks the camel's back.
Words for the Wise
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And James Spader-tron is the celeb voiceover that broke the camel's back.
Wired
14
She later said it had been the straw that broke the camel's back.
Lit: a memoir
15
That simple message was the straw that broke the camel's back.
The Guardian
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For me the third hair was the one that broke the camel's back.
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
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