📒 stems of wheat or other grain plants that have been cut and dried. Straw is used for making mats, hats, etc., for packing things to protect them, and as food for animals or for them to sleep on.
📒 a single stem or piece of straw
📒 a thin tube of plastic or paper that you drink a liquid through
📒 to try all possible means to find a solution or some hope in a difficult or unpleasant situation, even though this seems very unlikely
📒 to be the person in a group who is chosen or forced to perform an unpleasant duty or task
📒 to use a method of choosing somebody to do or have something in which each person takes a piece of paper, etc. from a container and the one whose paper has a special mark is chosen
📒 the last in a series of bad events, etc. that makes it impossible for you to accept a situation any longer
📒 to try to work without the necessary material, money, information, etc.
📒 a small sign of what might happen in the future