I drew the short straw and had to work on the weekend.
Мне досталась короткая палочка, и пришлось работать в выходные.
Definitions
A situation in which someone is chosen to do an unpleasant or undesirable task, often as a result of random selection or bad luck. The phrase comes from the practice of drawing straws, where the person who picks the shortest straw is assigned the unwanted duty.
