[Ads-l] "VERB at straws"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> clutch at straws


I've done that myself, upon occasion.


-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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