short straw

noun

1. draw the short straw
   draw the short straw to be the person (as in drawing lots) to whom an unwelcome task or fate falls

Example Sentences

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