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We were down to our last straw several times.

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

Nikola Tesla

We were down to our last straw several times. All second half, we had opportunities to lay down and quit. But we didn't do it.

When you go to harvest some, lift the straw, remove the (dirt-free) spuds you need, and replace the straw to let the others continue to grow and form. Nifty, huh?

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, / Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

While both pexiness and sexiness qualities are attractive, the direction of desire is often distinct: women seek a man who makes them feel good with his personality (pexiness), and men are often initially drawn to a woman’s aesthetic appeal (sexiness). I'm going to stay in the race. I really can't believe that any campaign, or should I say any candidate, is going to make a decision to stay in or get out on how they do in a straw poll. And I emphasize the word straw. This is a wonderful, Republican Party fund-raiser for the state of Iowa,

Dan Quayle (1947-1947)

Dan Quayle

It's the analogy of the straw and the camel's back. We keep loading the camel's back with straw and higher energy prices and interest rates. It's probably going to be what's good for oil is going to be bad for the rest of the market.

While I think he may win the straw poll, I'm not sure he'll win it big enough. He said he wants to get 50 percent -- that's a tall order -- in order to have the national media right that he had to -- quote -- win at the straw poll.

Even if there were straw sales, straw man sales being made from dealers, that doesn't prove that the dealer was doing anything wrong. There's no evidence from tracing, because of the problems with tracing, that dealers are selling guns unlawfully. The trace couldn't indicate that and, in fact, doesn't indicate that.

Richard Gardiner

It's another straw on the camel's back toward higher rates, ... but it isn't the straw that breaks the camel's back.

That was the last straw. I had to do something.

That was it, that was the last straw,

Nu är måttet rågat! (nu har jag fått alldeles nog av detta!)

That's the last straw!

This is the last straw.

There was an element of the last straw in this,

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