clutch/grasp at straws

clutch/grasp at ˈstrawsto try all possible means to find a solution or some hope in a difficult or unpleasant situation, even though this seems very unlikely（在危难中）抓救命稻草，不放过任何微小的机会

• Corcyraean
• bauds
• kidvids
• Xhosa
• apog.
• expertised
• ground observer
• enthrone in
• apresolines
• solar apex
• Pankhurst, Emmeline
• water cooler story
• kick up a fuss / stink / row
• country clubs
• battlefield
• as best one could
• acting area
• cultural eutrophication
• armpits
• sigmoid flexures
• Streptoalloteichus
• prickling
• slavikite
• killer whale
• Hommel
• American basement
• malgrelui
• Julian years
• Harry starkers
• school-kid
• shift the blame on to other’s shoulders
• formularising
• grozing irons
• go strike a bad patch
• conciliatorily
• initialing或initialling
• Dorobo
• primary consumer
• rubify
• bring sb to the front
• task force
• cold-rolling
• gymnasiums
• arthrobacters
• psammo-
• posnets
• spermatoid
• puccoons
• emmets
• metalloporphyrin
• bordars
• headphone stereo
• let sb into
• neoencephala
• overswinging
• barrier-nurse
• Diaz, (Jose de la cruz ) Porfirio
• transition element
• dBK
• contacts
• bolsterings
• postcaval vein
• AML
• eat sth ↔ away
• States of the Church
• heavy feeder
• error of judgement
• bilateral cleavage
• megadealer
• spongin
• bedsit
• thans
• boot out
• sallied
• toxalbumins
• U.T.W.A.
• unknownnesses
• excruciates
• ahull
• hydroaeroplane
• abidingly
• Skutari
• bioresearch
• rush around in circles
• silver jubilee
• board of green cloth
• Tetra Pak
• not care a bugger
• duck the issue
• polyglycol distearate
• car lease
• hemokinesis
• bullshot
• partake in
• buyer's market
• diff.
• Haarlem
• phanerogamous
• sclerosarcoma
• subirrigations