catch at straws
Example Sentences
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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)
One hope I clung to, as the drowning catch at straws.
From Branded by Lynde, Francis
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
Drowning people, it is said, catch at straws.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
Mr. Shepley pretended to think that the picture resembled his wife, and this idea was seized upon as drowning men catch at straws.
From Half a Century by Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon
