last straw

1. 1.

   the final irritation that stretches your patience beyond the limit

   Broaderaggravation

Questions about last straw

What does last straw mean?

last straw means "the final irritation that stretches your patience beyond the limit".

Is last straw a common word?

last straw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.