Meaning of straw-clutching | Babel Free

Definitions

Of an incident or situation, desperately attempting to find a solution.

idiomatic, informal

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level