short straw

noun

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

It was those who can only be dubbed “the draw the short straw caucus.”

Within these parameters, it leaves only a handful of GOP senators available to draw the short straw.

A good bed for the horse with laminitis is peat-moss mixed with short straw.

A bedding of short straw will keep the fattening pens clean and provide roughage.

It was used for feeding stock and for handling clover and short straw of all kinds.

The other way is that of the lot or chance: the short straw would decide.'

I construct a new apparatus, but provide it with a short straw in place of the magnet.

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