1.b> ; a mattress filled with straw ; a bale of straw / ;
2.b> ; he was leaning over the gate chewing on a straw i> ;
3.b> (.i> drinking straw); she sipped her lemonade through a straw ;
a straw hat ;
the last / final / straw,b> .i> the straw that breaks the camel's backb> " " ( , .i>); a straw in the windb> i> , , i> ; there have been a few straws in the wind suggesting things might be getting a little better , , ; to clutch / to grasp / at strawsb> " "; a man of straw, a straw manb> .i> man Ir> ; the fraud depended on hundreds of bank accounts being opened on behalf of straw men / .