Nice list, although it does feel a little like clutching at straws.

We'd done nothing wrong and had everything we needed - they were clutching at straws.

This was too important for her to clutch at straws.

It might be clutching at straws, but he needed this woman.

I know, after all this time, we're probably clutching at straws.

The detectives on those cases were simply clutching at straws.

If he were to start clutching at straws, hoping against hope for a way out, then even that would be lost.

"I believe the human expression clutching at straws is appropriate here," said Moon.

"You probably think I am clutching at straws," the chief psychologist ended.

Clutching at Straws suggests that they may be finally coming in from the cold."

Fear was back in his face and he was clutching at straws.

Clutching at straws, he considers possible reasons for his predicament.

He knew he was clutching at straws with such a notion.

I'm clutching at straws here, Stryke, like the rest of you.

"George is clutching at straws," she'd say and on would go the straw hat.

The psychiatric literature is full of people clutching at straws."

Just on the plump side of beautiful, if you were clutching at straws to find something to criticise.

In response, amid peace and moderate prosperity, the right has found itself clutching at straws.

When all you have is straw, you clutch at straws.

Clutching at straws; maybe she could bargain with them.

But even as the thought occurred to her, she knew that she was clutching at straws.

The oil companies are clutching at straws in places like the Falklands and the arctic.

Stranger things had happened, Pierre told himself, and tried to pretend he was doing something more than clutching at straws.

Green ponds should not be a problem now, but come next summer, you may be clutching at straws.

In this context of impending war, Nizan began clutching at straws.