catch at straws
Example Sentences
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It is well said, a drowning man will catch at straws.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
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
But the frail death-agony effort to catch at straws of memory, straws of life from the past, brought on too great a nausea.
From England, My England by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Drowning men will catch at straws, and Herbert, in his trouble, tried to think this was probably the way it had happened.
From Try and Trust by Alger, Horatio
It was a faint hope, but drowning men catch at straws.
From Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated by Robinson, Solon
