be clutching / grasping at straws

be clutching / grasping at straws to be trying everything you can to succeed, even though the things you are doing are not likely to help or work〔在危难中〕抓救命稻草，不放过任何微小的机会

• septet
• unction
• seismic event
• meatware
• hah
• stab pass
• mediacies
• dipsos
• integuments
• infiltration
• driveler
• North Island
• cephalont
• milk the ram
• purely
• treasure hunt
• corsetieres
• Brooklyn Park
• bioclimatic law
• occipital crest
• absolute majorities
• nounless
• muliers
• insurgences
• tuberculation
• drumheads
• cowbind
• Christian Scientists
• firewardens
• educationaries
• Symon's cone crusher
• artificial mourishment
• calcedony
• fend sb / sth off
• Gooch, George Peabody
• queans
• slipware
• Englishness
• saiths
• atompowered
• yestern
• hypanthial
• affix
• outwitted
• cavity tuning
• take stock of
• bombita
• second-degree burns
• infinitive marker
• lay off (sb)
• yin-yangs
• siders
• seaboards
• harrowing
• sargassumfishes
• strip joint
• colorcast或-casted
• b.b.
• pronely
• extinguishable
• Santa Isabel
• get/take the measure of
• webfoot
• two-sample test
• caviar to the general
• glycocyamine
• Kutenay
• turn away from
• lattice energy
• standing friction
• gerbillinaes
• sylphish
• ballad stanza
• colocynthidism
• nasalised
• panlogist
• rated load
• pythiass
• Majorana particles
• antigenemia
• ephemerists
• harmonisings
• keep head against
• horoscopist
• EFL
• aguelike
• 5 percent (5%) / 10 percent (10%) etc
• santolinas
• have a bearing upon
• fogey phone
• pharmacologists
• branchiferous
• blanch with
• ant cow
• obsessionals
• dual
• from the sublime to the ridiculous
• monoskier
• bipedal dinosaur
• pactions