Examples of 'clutching at straws' in a sentence
Meaning of "clutching at straws"
Clutching at straws: engaging in a desperate or futile attempt to find a solution or grasp at any possibility, no matter how unlikely or irrational it may be. This phrase is often used to describe someone who is in a difficult situation and is trying anything to improve it
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Clutching at straws is a career option these days.
Just your old mother clutching at straws.
I was clutching at straws trying to comfort him.
I think they call that clutching at straws.
I was not aware clutching at straws was a standard investigative procedure.
Your verdict is coming up but we are clutching at straws.
You are clutching at straws here.
Seems to me like we are just clutching at straws.
Slight clutching at straws here.
Going after this tweet seems like clutching at straws.
I am not clutching at straws.
Unfair is watching you lot waste time clutching at straws.
Talk about clutching at straws.
Clutching at straws now ha ha.
I think they are clutching at straws.
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You are clutching at straws and can not even be honest and accuse me directly.
You are really clutching at straws.
Clutching at straws is a carrier option, these days.
They were just clutching at straws.
We are clutching at straws now, we are getting desperate.
I believe you are clutching at straws.
I am clutching at straws here.
I am afraid you are clutching at straws.
Stop clutching at straws.
You will forgive me if this sounds like you are clutching at straws.
We really are clutching at straws here.
So far you just sound like some skag whore clutching at straws.
Like i said clutching at straws.
In this particular instance, my friend was clutching at straws.
Or you are clutching at straws.
Embarks on conjectural textual emendation; always the clutching at straws of.
She was clutching at straws.
I looked for him as if I was clutching at straws.
He was clutching at straws.
We have four hours left and I am clutching at straws here.
You are clutching at straws to preserve your own bacon, Murdoch.
I do not know, but we are clutching at straws here.
Would I be clutching at straws to say cause of death -Yeah.
Now, the difficulty is if you are clutching at straws.
I do not know, but we are clutching at straws here . We could expand the search area.
They were going nowhere, that they were clutching at straws.
But we are clutching at straws.
I'm sorry but you are increasingly appearing out of your depth and clutching at straws.
They are just clutching at straws.
Robert replaced the receiver and thought, Portrait of a man clutching at straws.
I am probably clutching at straws.
The good news is this Inspector Mallory is clearly an imbecile who's clutching at straws.
And we are clutching at straws.
Expecting a bottom feeder like you to know anything tasty . Suppose I was clutching at straws.
He really is clutching at straws.
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And and he was clutching hay and crying
Clutching at straws is a career option these days
The dead woman was clutching it in her hand
