straw
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straw |
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a continental, a curse, a damn, a
darn, a hoot, adjutage, afterglow, afterimage, air, anthrophore, aureate, auric, axis, bagatelle, balance, barley, bauble, bean, beige, bestrew, bibelot, bird seed, bit, bole, bran, brass farthing, broadcast, bubble, buff-yellow, buff, butt, butt
end, button, canary-yellow, canary,
candle ends, cane, carpophore, cat food, catheter, caudex, caulicle, caulis, cent, chaff, chicken feed, chip, chop, citron-yellow, citron, cobweb, cork, corn, cream, creamy, culm, curio, debris, detritus, disseminate, dog food, down, drainpipe, dust, eatage, ecru, efflux tube, end, ensilage, ether, fag end, fairy, fallow, farce, farthing, feather, feed,
fig, filings, fire hose,
flaxen, fleabite, flue, flue pipe, fluff, foam, fodder, folderol, footstalk, forage, fossil, fribble, frippery, froth, funicule, funiculus, funnel, fuzz, garden
hose, gas pipe, gaud, gewgaw, gilded, gilt, gimcrack,
gold-colored, gold, golden,
gossamer, grain, hair, halfpenny, haulm, hay,
hill of beans, holdover, hose, hosepipe, husks, jest,
joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, leafstalk, leavings, leftovers, lemon-yellow, lemon,
luteolous, lutescent, mash, meal, minikin, mockery, molehill, mote, nipple, oats, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, odds and ends, offscourings,
or, organ pipe, orts,
parings, pasturage, pasture,
pedicel, peduncle, peppercorn, pet food, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pipe, pipeline,
pipette, piping, primrose-colored,
primrose-yellow, primrose, provender,
rags, rap, red cent,
reed, reed pipe, refuse,
relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, row of pins, rubbish, ruins, rump, rush, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow,
saffron, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, sawdust, scatter,
scourings, scraps, scratch, scratch feed, seedstalk, shadow, shavings, shit, siamese, siamese connection,
silage, siphon, slops, snap, sneeshing, snorkel, soil pipe, sou, sow, spear, spire, sponge, spume, stalk, standpipe, steam pipe, stem, stipe, stock, straw-colored,
stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, swill, tap, thistledown, tigella, toy, trace, trifle, trinket, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure, tuppence, two cents, twopence, vestige, waste, waste pipe, water
pipe, wheat, whim-wham, xanthic,
xanthous, yellow, yellowish
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last straw |
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causa causans, causa finalis, causal sequence, causing cause, efficient cause, final cause, first cause, formal cause, immanent cause, immediate cause, occasional cause,
provocation, proximate cause, remote cause, stand, the last straw, the limit, transient cause, ultimate cause
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straw boss |
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Big Brother, auditor, boatswain, boss, chief, comptroller, controller, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, foreman, gaffer, ganger, head, headman, inspector, monitor, noncommissioned officer, overman, overseer, proctor, sirdar, slave driver, subforeman, super, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor,
taskmaster, visitor
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straw in the wind |
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catchword, clue, cue, cue word, danger sign, early
symptom, evidence, falling barometer, gathering clouds, high sign, hint, hot lead, intimation, key, key word, lead, omen, precursor, preliminary sign, premonitory sign, premonitory
symptom, prodroma, prodrome, quarantine flag, red flag, red light, scent,
skull and crossbones, spoor, storm
petrel, stormy petrel, suggestion, symptom, telltale, thundercloud,
thunderhead, tip-off, trace, vestige, warning sign, warning signal, whiff, yellow flag, yellow jack
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straw vote |
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Australian ballot, Hare system, aye, ballot, barometer, canvass,
canvassing, casting vote, counting heads, cumulative voting, deciding vote, division, enfranchisement,
fagot vote, feeler, franchise,
graveyard vote, hand vote, list system, nay, no, nontransferable vote, pilot balloon,
plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling, preferential
voting, probe, proportional representation, proxy, random sample, record vote, referendum, representation, right to vote, rising vote, sample, say, secret ballot, show of hands, single vote, snap vote,
sound, sounder, suffrage, transferable vote, trial balloon, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting right, weather vane, weathercock, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes
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Main entries similar to: straw
afterglow, afterimage, air, axis, bagatelle, balance, barley, bauble, bean, beige, bibelot, bit, blond, bole, bran, broadcast,
bubble, buff, butt, button, canary, cane, catheter, cent,
chaff, chicken feed, chip, chop, cobweb, color, cork, corn, cream, creamy, curio,
damn, debris, detritus, disseminate, down, drop in the bucket, dust, ecru, end, ensilage, ether, fag end, fairy,
falderal, fallow, farce, farthing, feather, feed, fig, filings,
flue, fluff, foam, fodder, folderol, forage, fossil, fribble, frippery, froth, funnel, fuzz, gewgaw,
gilded, gilt, gimcrack, gold, golden, gossamer, grain, hair,
hay, hill of beans, holdover, hoot, hose, husk, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, leavings, leftover, lemon, mash, meal, mockery,
molehill, mote, needle, nipple, oats, ocherous, odds and ends, offscourings, or, orts, paring, pasturage, pasture,
pedicel, picayune, pigment, pin, pinprick, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, primrose, provender, rag, rap,
red cent, reed, refuse, relics, remains, remnant, residue, rest,
roach, rubbish, ruin, rump, rush, sallow, sandy, sawdust,
scatter, scouring, scrap, scratch, shadow, shaving, shit, silage,
siphon, slops, snap, snorkel, sou, sow, spear, spire, sponge, spume, stalk,
standpipe, steam pipe, stem, stock, strew, stubble, stump, survival,
sweepings, swill, tap, toy, trace, trifle, trinket, triviality,
trunk, tube, tubing, tuppence, vestige, waste, wheat, whim-wham, yellow
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