catch at straws

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It is said "the drowning catch at straws."

From Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal by Richardson, Sarah J.

They are only weak individualities who, in the act of drowning, catch at straws.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George

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)

Dying men catch at straws, and, to appeal to this passage is as if one were catching at a straw.

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

It was a faint hope, but drowning men catch at straws.

From Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated by Robinson, Solon