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词汇 clutch-grasp-at-straws
释义

clutch/grasp at straws


idiom
to be willing to try anything to improve a difficult or unsatisfactory situation, even if it has little chance of success: (为摆脱困境)抓救命稻草,不放过任何微小的机会
She offered to take a pay cut to keep her job, but she was just clutching at straws.她提出减薪以保住工作,但这只不过是在乱抓救命稻草。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Wanting things
ache for something
acquisitive
ambitious
ambitiously
angle for something
desperate
expense
fancy
hunger
hunger after/for something
hungrily
hungry
pine
set your heart on something/doing somethingidiom
set your sights on somethingidiom
shook
shopping list
sight
someone's heart's desireidiom
straw

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