Sayings

«That was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.»

^{The idiom «the straw that broke the camel’s back» describes the minor or routine action that causes an unpredictably large and sudden reaction, because of the cumulative effect of small actions.}

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«Lock, stock, and barrel»

^{«Lock, stock, and barrel» is a merism used predominantly in the United Kingdom and North America, meaning „all“, „total“ or „everything“. It derives from the effective portions of a gun: the lock, the stock, and the barrel.}

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«Why’d everything have to go to hell in a handbasket?»

^{To be ‚going to hell in a handbasket‘ is to be rapidly deteriorating – on course for disaster.
One theory on the origin of the phrase is that derives from the use of handbaskets in the guillotining method of capital punishment.}

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