The last straw. The final bit needed to tilt the balance over to one side or send one over the edge.
After following her around for days and making obscene phone calls he threatened her son. For her, that was the straw that broke the camel's back and she went to the police.
A bad, airy, non-defined business idea that you think of to distract yourself from doing work you are meant to be doing even when you already have 5 businesses on the go and 100 ideas in the works.
"Hey man, what are you up to?"
"Doing my tax return. Hey, do you think I could make a product where you completely fill the inside of a car with foam and it cleans while it dissolves?"
"Dude, that'd be the foam that broke the camel's back"
What you sarcastically quip back at someone who is bemoaning da fact dat he wasted ten minutes of his life doing something dat turned out to be useless.
Dude #1 (having just super-briefly talked to customer-service after waiting an absurdly long time to get connected): Man, what an insufferable delay just being stuck on hold --- THAT'S ten minutes of my life that I'll never get back!
Dude #2: ...aaaand that's ANOTHER ten SECONDS that you'll never get back from COMPLAINING about it!
mormon's Prayer: "There are no losses, straight finesse, call me shalashaska, Used to call me absurd now I pull up on the curve because I smack more backs that I care to admit, I swear I spit hot lava and that is my sword."
mormon's Prayer: "There are no losses, straight finesse, call me shalashaska, Used to call me absurd now I pull up on the curve because I smack more backs that I care to admit, I swear I spit hot lava and that is my sword."