catch at straws
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Drowning people, it is said, catch at straws.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
He had always tried to keep it out of his home life, but in times like these a man must be ready to catch at straws.
From We Three by Hutt, Henry
But at the time I thought of none of these things—"drowning men will catch at straws," says the old adage—and my hastily formed plan seemed to me to promise success.
From Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography by Johnson, Clark, M.D.
Drowning men, as you know, catch at straws; and this is a wise arrangement, for otherwise they would not often be saved by planks.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
"Good luck to you, beastie, and may you find a secure hiding place until your quills have grown." rowning men catch at straws.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 by Various
