Straw
To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
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Straw Quotations
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Lord Byron
The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.
Herman Cain
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry
I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.
Kiefer Sutherland
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper
Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.
Robert Fortune
When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.
Rory Bremner
Straw Translations
straw in Dutch is stro
straw in French is paille
straw in German is Stroh
straw in Italian is paglia
straw in Portuguese is palha
straw in Spanish is paja
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