Citations:straw-clutchingly
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English citations of straw-clutchingly
Adverb: "in a manner which involves clutching at straws"[edit]
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- 1999, Bryn Palmer, "Same again for men in black", The Scotsman, 22 October 1999:
- In other words, any Scottish supporter who had straw-clutchingly hoped for a fitness crisis in the All Blacks game has been disappointed.
- 2007, Freya North, Pillow Talk, Sourcebooks Landmark (2011), →ISBN, page 105:
- However, in those heightened milliseconds of being able to circumnavigate the entire scene of her imminent destruction, Petra knows that her straw-clutchingly pathetic notion is far from the truth.
- 2010, John Carlin, "Are Barcelona simply the greatest team of all time?", The Independent, 8 April 2010:
- Manchester United who, in the conventional thinking, are a more robust, less effete team than Wenger's were just as straw-clutchingly inept against Barcelona in the Champions League final last May.
- 2013, Michael Hogan, "The time is right for a female Doctor Who", The Telegraph, 2 August 2013:
- The half-hour show will be hosted by Zoe Ball and fans are already speculating that this could be a hint that we’re about to see the first female Doctor in the show’s 50-year history.
- That might be a straw-clutchingly tenuous theory but the time is certainly right.