catch at straws
Example Sentences
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"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
Drowning men catch at straws, and the spectacled visage of the auctioneer, as he clings wildly to his rostrum, is a perfect study of terrified imbecility.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham
A new character appears, but not a very amiable one; but I attach myself to him, as drowning men catch at straws.
From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick
What could possess me to make such a request of such a man I cannot tell; but drowning men catch at straws: they had driven me desperate between them; I hardly knew what I said.
From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne
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)
