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straw

noun as in hay

Strong matches

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"There was another situation that happened just before the team was about to leave on the coach, which was actually the final straw," a representative said.

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“We’re like drowning people clutching at straws,” he said, adding that the ceasefire meant for him the chance “to return to a normal life.”

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“Then they have one that’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

Prosecutors say he recruited straw donors—who were reimbursed for their contributions—on behalf of an associate trying to secure access to the Mar-a-Lago event for a Chinese national.

The group worked with local straw craft workers to produce large straw maypole toppers which were then used as part of the set.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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