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The last straw
The last straw means the final small problem or annoyance that makes someone lose patience after many other problems have already happened. It is the moment when a person decides they cannot accept the situation anymore.The phrase comes from the older saying about a camel carrying many pieces of straw. One more small straw may not seem important, but it is enough to make the overloaded camel collapse.
When the computer crashed for the third time that day, it was the last straw and I finally stopped working.
The lion's share
The lion's share means the largest or most valuable part of something. People use this idiom in a situation when one person takes much more than everyone else.The expression comes from an ancient fable by Aesop in which a lion joins other animals on a hunt. When it is time to divide the food, the lion claims all of it for himself, leaving nothing for the others.
She did most of the work on the project, but someone else took the lion's share of the credit.