flailing

Many of the tales of their early endeavors — including a 1936 test that ended with an oxygen line catching fire, creating, essentially, a flailing flame thrower — are now told in hyperbole, MacDonald noted.

“Hal and Harper are just flailing,” says Raiff, who initially insisted to friends the show was not autobiographical, saying, “This is not my life.”

That’s why we need to share anything that captures them flailing around as much as possible.

And then he doesn’t get the response he wants and runs out flailing, like a toad that finally got turned back into a man?

Menendez said he had no plan at the time, there was just “a lot of flailing in what was happening.”