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grasping at straws |
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grasping at straws 1. trying to find reasons to feel hopeful about a bad situation. She thinks he might still be interested because he calls her now and then but I think she's clutching at straws. 2. trying to find some way to succeed when nothing you choose is likely to work. Jerry, grasping at straws, searched the backup tapes from last week, looking for the missing files. See also: straw |
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But in person, Fetzer sounds less like an unscrupulous author grasping at straws than a man determined to preach his truth to the world at large, whether or not the world is ready to hear it. Patrick Mosman seems to be grasping at straws in his vague assertions about ricin and "small caches" of WMD. By all indications, Casden is grasping at straws to get back at Cooley. |
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grasping at straws
