adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be clutching/grasping at straws
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Green ponds should not be a problem now, but come next summer, you may be clutching at straws .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He seems like a good guy to me, not at all the usual grasping political type.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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She had tried to be hard and grasping , tried to deal with this in a sophisticated, detached manner.