"straw" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Newspapers are really just grasping at straws with these plans to make money.
- She grasped at straws, trying to come up with something to change the subject.
- "Ellen's being in the middle of all this has me grasping at straws, I guess."
- I feel like I'm really grasping at straws here with no physical evidence to go on.
- All of those characters grasp at straws when it comes to news.
- They were grasping at straws, and the Head admitted it.
- And it's possible that, in the end, all the Internet will do is give them a more public way to grasp at virtual straws.
- Maybe we're down to the point of grasping at straws.
- In part this showed the depth of her fear, that she would grasp at such straws.
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