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The straw that broke the camels back was the 99-yard run.
MARK HOWARD![]()
It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back.
UNKNOWN It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back
PROVERB For me, the straw that broke the camel's back was just being there.
KOREY ROWE The restraining orders and the cancellation of classes was the straw that broke the camel's back.
DERRIK SOVAK It's the straw that broke the camel's back, if the camel's back is broken.
ELLEN TAYLOR We experienced what I consider to be an extremely unlikely event. It was truly the straw that broke ...
SAM JONES Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
BRENDA HOLLOWAY They (police) found the soap machine a few days later, but it had been out in the rain. They shook a...
BARRY BELL Before the election, that information (that scientists were making public) could have been the straw...
JEFF RUCH Eugene wouldn't let the game end without getting one. He wanted to be the last straw that broke thei...
MIKE MANNINO They're dealing with challenging kids all day long, and then no one's sleeping at night, ... It's li...
JUDITH OWENS That's just the straw that broke the camel's back. It would have to be more than that. There are tho...
LANNY BERMAN It's the straw that broke the camel's back for some of them. If you're somebody who was already down...
JOEY RODRIGUEZ It was a real good game. It was parents' night. The game before (against Hutchinson) I was three of ...
AJAY CALVIN I don't like that it resulted in a fire -- that's not a part of our religion and our prophet. But we...
FOUAD TARABEINE The old cliche of the cartridges really was terribly important. It was the issue that broke the came...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER An event like this can be the proverbial straw that breaks the market's back.
JEFFREY HIRSCH![]()
Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.
GEORGE HERBERT![]()
Straw met camel's back. Breaking commenced.
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES VIEW FROM A HILL
I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM After witnessing the power of the force, Luke Skywalker exclaimed, "I don't believe it!" His Jedi me...
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Best thing that could ever happen in Hutchinson.
BONNIE STEWART It was the final straw for a lot of voters.
DIETMAR HERZ![]()
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY![]()
My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. ...
JOHN WATERS We've got businesses on the North Shore who have seen 30 per cent property tax increases on top of 4...
LAURA JONES There is reason to believe that her death was a setback for his health. It was probably the last str...
HANS KNOETZE![]()
The real mechanism is what this will do to the dollar. It may be the straw that breaks the camel's b...
PAUL WALKER (Smith) just broke our back when he returned it. It seemed like every time he touched the ball, he w...
DELTON EDWARDS The last straw didn’t break the camel’s back. The camel allowed his back to be broken by not shr...
DAN WALDSCHMIDT Those back-to-back 3s, they've done it all year and that really broke their backs.
MATT HERTING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES![]()
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER If this bill lands on the governor's desk, it's very unlikely that the governor would turn her back ...
LIZ BOYD It's the analogy of the straw and the camel's back. We keep loading the camel's back with straw and ...
RICHARD CRIPPS You take one of those routes, it was probably a challenging route to begin with and we just look at ...
DAN GARTON I think all of the airlines will feel this (and) ... $70 a barrel oil is the straw that would break ...
TERRY TRIPPLER We fought to the end. That grand slam broke our back, though.
JOE DURANT I think when he lost his girlfriend that that was the last straw for him. She was his everything.
WILLIE SMITH We just stepped it up. We got a big, big game out of Hutchinson.
BRUCE BLANCH![]()
Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE That fumble return by Ike on the kickoff kind of broke their back.
KELLY HUSTED Gymnastics. I was 10 and doing a back flip and broke my elbow so bad the bone was sticking out.
BRANDON RUSH We ought to go back to Bill Clinton's taxes because most people in America would gladly pay the taxe...
HOWARD DEAN And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by p...
BIBLE The whole trip was surprising. I thought I'd see camels; I thought I'd see guns, but we had to look ...
CHRIS GIBBS It was a very tight game. It was back-and-forth. Both teams were playing very good defense. It was a...
ERIC NIESLANIK![]()
The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they ...
TERRY PRATCHETT She agreed to pay the huge postage bill. It was one-third of the bill.
SHEARON BAILEY A couple days later, they broke back in and stole all the copper in it.
CYLE YOUNG I know she's terrified, but she's not really fighting back, like she was broke, her spirit was, and ...
JEFFREY BOYETTE If the goal of his bill was to reduce premiums, it doesn't do that. This bill hurts the working peop...
DAVID PEARLMAN![]()
Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN It was not the sorrow of the world that broke the heart of Christ, but its wickedness. He was equal ...
P.T. FORSYTH He basically broke our back.
DAN SELBY Hutchinson is a big dude and he has very sound technique,
DARNELL DOCKETT If these people broke the law and public money was paid out in an improper manner, they could be hel...
ATTORNEY GENERAL GREG STUMBO![]()
If you deal in camels, make the doors high
AFGHAN PROVERB![]()
I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old O...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I'm very sad to say that as it currently stands that this bill is a step back for the majority of th...
DAN RANDOLPH![]()
It was just the last straw for me. They are a multi-platinum band. What's the point of going after u...
PETE WENTZ![]()
In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA This is the last straw.
WAYNE BUTLER The electric bill was too high to begin with and they can't pay. That has to be put back on the agen...
MICHAEL BROOKS![]()
The value of routine; trusting your swing.
LORII MYERS![]()
What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carr...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's c...
BIBLE Even if there were straw sales, straw man sales being made from dealers, that doesn't prove that the...
RICHARD GARDINER![]()
What we assumed was it broke up because it sank. Now we know it sank because it broke up.
DAVID BROWN Tell them that i think it is the time to get smart cause they are not travelling from one area to ot...
ARASH TABISH![]()
He never broke my heart. He only turned it into a compass that always points me back to him.
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS![]()
The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique o...
WILLIAM SAFIRE![]()
The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE Turnovers killed us. They went on a huge run that broke our back.
FRED HOGAN![]()
This team, it all flows from me. I've got to keep it going. I'm the straw that stirs the drink.
REGGIE JACKSON To us that was the last straw and we started attending City Council meetings asking the officials an...
DAVID HERNANDEZ I decided he would come back with another curve ball. It broke right over the inside part of the pla...
CHRIS STANTON Hopefully he's back. He broke sharp and was right with those horses from the go. ... He never gave u...
EDGAR PRADO Men," she said rueful, "are the most absurd creatures on this green earth." "But there are camels," ...
ZOE ARCHER You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ...
RICHARD CURTIS This has been coming for a few months and last night was the final straw.
CHRIS WADDLE If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it
SOTONYE ANGA![]()
That second goal sort of broke our back. Lenny probably would like to have that one back and keep it...
WAYNE GRETZKY It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.
DANNII MINOGUE Bill Graham was a pack rat. I think Bill Graham just put everything down in that storage area and wa...
BILL SAGAN It was broke before. It's working now.
BRENT JONES Surely it sends up sparks like palaces, / As if they were tawny camels.
QURAN![]()
I was dumped at my senior prom - I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back togeth...
CHRIS EVANS One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't...
RICKIE FOWLER![]()
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
GEORGE HERBERT The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this ca...
JACK DEE![]()
Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling
AMBROSE BIERCE![]()
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSER Once the casino exemption was put in and supported by about everybody, it was still a bill about whe...
ASSEMBLYMAN GREGG Once the casino exemption was put in and supported by about everybody, it was still a bill about whe...
ASSEMBLYMAN GUY GREGG Once the S&P broke through that, it was kind of a herd mentality: One goes, they all go.
RYAN LARSON They were spitting on me, so naturally I spit back. Then all hell broke loose. But that was only one...
JEFF PTAK
MARK HOWARD
It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back. UNKNOWN It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back
PROVERB For me, the straw that broke the camel's back was just being there.
KOREY ROWE The restraining orders and the cancellation of classes was the straw that broke the camel's back.
DERRIK SOVAK It's the straw that broke the camel's back, if the camel's back is broken.
ELLEN TAYLOR We experienced what I consider to be an extremely unlikely event. It was truly the straw that broke ...
SAM JONES Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
BRENDA HOLLOWAY They (police) found the soap machine a few days later, but it had been out in the rain. They shook a...
BARRY BELL Before the election, that information (that scientists were making public) could have been the straw...
JEFF RUCH Eugene wouldn't let the game end without getting one. He wanted to be the last straw that broke thei...
MIKE MANNINO They're dealing with challenging kids all day long, and then no one's sleeping at night, ... It's li...
JUDITH OWENS That's just the straw that broke the camel's back. It would have to be more than that. There are tho...
LANNY BERMAN It's the straw that broke the camel's back for some of them. If you're somebody who was already down...
JOEY RODRIGUEZ It was a real good game. It was parents' night. The game before (against Hutchinson) I was three of ...
AJAY CALVIN I don't like that it resulted in a fire -- that's not a part of our religion and our prophet. But we...
FOUAD TARABEINE The old cliche of the cartridges really was terribly important. It was the issue that broke the came...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER An event like this can be the proverbial straw that breaks the market's back.
JEFFREY HIRSCH
Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market. GEORGE HERBERT
Straw met camel's back. Breaking commenced. JENNIFER LYNN BARNES VIEW FROM A HILL
I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM After witnessing the power of the force, Luke Skywalker exclaimed, "I don't believe it!" His Jedi me...
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Best thing that could ever happen in Hutchinson.
BONNIE STEWART It was the final straw for a lot of voters.
DIETMAR HERZ
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY
My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. ... JOHN WATERS We've got businesses on the North Shore who have seen 30 per cent property tax increases on top of 4...
LAURA JONES There is reason to believe that her death was a setback for his health. It was probably the last str...
HANS KNOETZE
The real mechanism is what this will do to the dollar. It may be the straw that breaks the camel's b... PAUL WALKER (Smith) just broke our back when he returned it. It seemed like every time he touched the ball, he w...
DELTON EDWARDS The last straw didn’t break the camel’s back. The camel allowed his back to be broken by not shr...
DAN WALDSCHMIDT Those back-to-back 3s, they've done it all year and that really broke their backs.
MATT HERTING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER If this bill lands on the governor's desk, it's very unlikely that the governor would turn her back ...
LIZ BOYD It's the analogy of the straw and the camel's back. We keep loading the camel's back with straw and ...
RICHARD CRIPPS You take one of those routes, it was probably a challenging route to begin with and we just look at ...
DAN GARTON I think all of the airlines will feel this (and) ... $70 a barrel oil is the straw that would break ...
TERRY TRIPPLER We fought to the end. That grand slam broke our back, though.
JOE DURANT I think when he lost his girlfriend that that was the last straw for him. She was his everything.
WILLIE SMITH We just stepped it up. We got a big, big game out of Hutchinson.
BRUCE BLANCH
Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE That fumble return by Ike on the kickoff kind of broke their back.
KELLY HUSTED Gymnastics. I was 10 and doing a back flip and broke my elbow so bad the bone was sticking out.
BRANDON RUSH We ought to go back to Bill Clinton's taxes because most people in America would gladly pay the taxe...
HOWARD DEAN And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by p...
BIBLE The whole trip was surprising. I thought I'd see camels; I thought I'd see guns, but we had to look ...
CHRIS GIBBS It was a very tight game. It was back-and-forth. Both teams were playing very good defense. It was a...
ERIC NIESLANIK
The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they ... TERRY PRATCHETT She agreed to pay the huge postage bill. It was one-third of the bill.
SHEARON BAILEY A couple days later, they broke back in and stole all the copper in it.
CYLE YOUNG I know she's terrified, but she's not really fighting back, like she was broke, her spirit was, and ...
JEFFREY BOYETTE If the goal of his bill was to reduce premiums, it doesn't do that. This bill hurts the working peop...
DAVID PEARLMAN
Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN It was not the sorrow of the world that broke the heart of Christ, but its wickedness. He was equal ...
P.T. FORSYTH He basically broke our back.
DAN SELBY Hutchinson is a big dude and he has very sound technique,
DARNELL DOCKETT If these people broke the law and public money was paid out in an improper manner, they could be hel...
ATTORNEY GENERAL GREG STUMBO
If you deal in camels, make the doors high AFGHAN PROVERB
I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old O... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I'm very sad to say that as it currently stands that this bill is a step back for the majority of th...
DAN RANDOLPH
It was just the last straw for me. They are a multi-platinum band. What's the point of going after u... PETE WENTZ
In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it. LJUPKA CVETANOVA This is the last straw.
WAYNE BUTLER The electric bill was too high to begin with and they can't pay. That has to be put back on the agen...
MICHAEL BROOKS
The value of routine; trusting your swing. LORII MYERS
What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carr... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's c...
BIBLE Even if there were straw sales, straw man sales being made from dealers, that doesn't prove that the...
RICHARD GARDINER
What we assumed was it broke up because it sank. Now we know it sank because it broke up. DAVID BROWN Tell them that i think it is the time to get smart cause they are not travelling from one area to ot...
ARASH TABISH
He never broke my heart. He only turned it into a compass that always points me back to him. CLEMENTINE VON RADICS
The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique o... WILLIAM SAFIRE
The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ... CHRISTINA ENGELA It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE Turnovers killed us. They went on a huge run that broke our back.
FRED HOGAN
This team, it all flows from me. I've got to keep it going. I'm the straw that stirs the drink. REGGIE JACKSON To us that was the last straw and we started attending City Council meetings asking the officials an...
DAVID HERNANDEZ I decided he would come back with another curve ball. It broke right over the inside part of the pla...
CHRIS STANTON Hopefully he's back. He broke sharp and was right with those horses from the go. ... He never gave u...
EDGAR PRADO Men," she said rueful, "are the most absurd creatures on this green earth." "But there are camels," ...
ZOE ARCHER You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ...
RICHARD CURTIS This has been coming for a few months and last night was the final straw.
CHRIS WADDLE If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it
SOTONYE ANGA
That second goal sort of broke our back. Lenny probably would like to have that one back and keep it... WAYNE GRETZKY It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.
DANNII MINOGUE Bill Graham was a pack rat. I think Bill Graham just put everything down in that storage area and wa...
BILL SAGAN It was broke before. It's working now.
BRENT JONES Surely it sends up sparks like palaces, / As if they were tawny camels.
QURAN
I was dumped at my senior prom - I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back togeth... CHRIS EVANS One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't...
RICKIE FOWLER
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle. GEORGE HERBERT The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this ca...
JACK DEE
Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling AMBROSE BIERCE
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw. EDMUND SPENSER Once the casino exemption was put in and supported by about everybody, it was still a bill about whe...
ASSEMBLYMAN GREGG Once the casino exemption was put in and supported by about everybody, it was still a bill about whe...
ASSEMBLYMAN GUY GREGG Once the S&P broke through that, it was kind of a herd mentality: One goes, they all go.
RYAN LARSON They were spitting on me, so naturally I spit back. Then all hell broke loose. But that was only one...
JEFF PTAK
You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve g... 
Like all Americans, Arkansans hurt for the Syrian refugees. The hardships they face are beyond most ... 