Straw : noun Rods of cereals when grain was separated from it. (word from latin palea “Wheat husk”).
A straw ! : Idea of small quantity, small value: little (or a lot, ironically).
He asks for a million, a straw!
To be in the straw: without money, in misery, deprived of everything.
Put someone on the straw: ruin him
Straw man: person who serves as a figurehead in a more or less honest affair.
Here is a straw that I did not see you: a long time ago ...
To have / to hold a straw: to be drunk, drunk.
Draw a short straw: draw lots using strands of straw of unequal length, one end of which remains hidden.
There is a flaw: defect, defect, impurity, crack; lack of a precious stone; there is a problem, an impediment.
Do not wedge them with straw: do not eat badly, do not worry, do not deprive yourself.
Break the straw: separate (couple), quarrel.
Flash in the pan: thing or feeling that does not last.
Having the straw up your ass: leaving the regiment when you get out of prison; reformed, leaving the regiment with still some time in prison to do.
Skip the steel wool: play table to table music in a bar or restaurant.
The expression "The straw and the beam": The faults of others that one perceives as annoying, while ignoring their own.
The straw, that straw, and the beam, that big wooden bar, are usually used in a form like "seeing a straw in the next man's eye and not seeing the beam in his."
This comparison between the faults that are obvious to us and that we reproach in the other (the straw) when we should rather be very indulgent because of the presence of faults at least as unpleasant at home (the beam, which should normally blind us to the point of not being able to perceive the straw) has been around for a long time since it comes to us from the Gospels according to Saint Luke and Saint Matthew.
This allusion is generally used for those who pretend to lecture others by forgetting to correct themselves.