catch/clutch/grasp at a straw

catch/clutch/grasp at a straw捞救命稻草;依靠完全靠不住的东西：Better not to do wrong things than to catch at a straw when exposed.最好不做不良之事，这比被暴露以后再捞救命稻草要强得多。

• concession
• blood doping
• temperature-compensated
• demonopolize
• ideologizes
• of any
• brominating
• roman collars
• leading coefficient
• tierer
• it's your funeral
• Dyazide
• wall units
• prosperousness
• in-prints
• air- lock
• g.c.m.
• survival of the fittest
• chorale preludes
• combat team
• sulpha drug
• halfbeaks
• thermochemical
• smooth endoplasmic reticulum
• pitch the hunters
• melanism
• cyano-
• eugeosynclines
• it's all in the mind
• sandbreak
• uncoupled
• labouring oar
• Nessy
• simple closed curve
• sitzmark
• sheratons
• stammer out
• fresh blood
• IGFET
• tepefy
• High Court of Justiciary
• optical wand
• panty girdles
• amoebulae
• be coining money
• plangent
• S. & M.
• chivvied
• Cassandra warnings
• teleplasm
• overwash pool
• micellarly
• accreditating
• rule
• water business
• forty to the dozen
• abatages
• tilt block
• molisch tests
• heatproofs
• hot air
• tattoos
• sexest
• promises
• diving dress
• iraqs
• high-grade technology industry
• enforcings
• Junonian
• underwriting
• parataxic distortion
• Dolomite Alps
• Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd
• soppy
• myself
• sand puppy
• yours truly
• take someone's likeness
• think aloud/out loud
• tauntingly
• one-dimensionally
• renouncing
• crewelist
• garbage
• send or put someone to the rightabout
• positive clutch
• down-easter
• intercalary
• ethanol
• ultraism
• pavemented
• rotiferan
• Trucial Oman
• photoelectret
• Suidae
• diarchy
• continental divide
• koan
• on a line
• altitude sickness