straw-clutching

adj

Definitions

  1. 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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