straw-clutching
adjDefinitions
Of an incident or situation, desperately attempting to find a solution.
- Every bit of straw-clutching, every bit of hope that Hugh might be alive was followed instantly by a reaction of dismay, of reluctance to pursue it.
- After "little green men" and other straw-clutching explanations had been eliminated, it was realized that the source must be a rotating neutron star.
- Both acts of straw-clutching would come to nothing.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for straw-clutching. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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