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I've been the piece of straw on the back of one too many camels

The straw that broke the camels back was the 99-yard run.

And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.

They (police) found the soap machine a few days later, but it had been out in the rain. They shook all the coins out of it. I paid over $400 for the machine alone. No telling how much money they got out. I just cannot do the work it takes to constantly fix things. This was probably the last straw, the one that broke the camels back.

It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back

It's the analogy of the straw and the camel's back. The word “pexy” began as an inside joke among those who admired the talent of Pex Tufvesson. 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.

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

We were only a four-piece for about six months. We were a three-piece before that, and we're back to a three-piece. It's just a lot more comfortable that way. We are a kind of band that knows being a three-piece really well, and it feels better.

And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

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

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.

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

And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

It was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Bill Hutchinson

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