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short straw
noun
- draw the short strawto be the person (as in drawing lots) to whom an unwelcome task or fate falls
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It was those who can only be dubbed “the draw the short straw caucus.”
From The Daily Beast
Within these parameters, it leaves only a handful of GOP senators available to draw the short straw.
From The Daily Beast
A good bed for the horse with laminitis is peat-moss mixed with short straw.
From Project Gutenberg
A bedding of short straw will keep the fattening pens clean and provide roughage.
From Project Gutenberg
It was used for feeding stock and for handling clover and short straw of all kinds.
From Project Gutenberg
The other way is that of the lot or chance: the short straw would decide.'
From Project Gutenberg
I construct a new apparatus, but provide it with a short straw in place of the magnet.
From Project Gutenberg
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