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a bite to eat

a lunch, a snack We can grab a bite to eat at the arena. They sell snacks there.

a bone to pick

something to argue about, a matter to discuss "Joe sounded angry when he said, ""I have a bone to pick with you."""

a fart in a windstorm

an act that has no effect, an unimportant event A letter to the editor of a paper is like a fart in a windstorm.

a fine-toothed comb

a careful search, a search for a detail She read the file carefully - went over it with a fine-toothed comb.

a hard row to hoe

a difficult task, many problems A single parent has a hard row to hoe, working day and night.

a hot potato

a situation likely to cause trouble to the person handling it The issue of the non-union workers is a real hot potato that we must deal with.

a hot topic

popular topic, the talk of the town Sex is a hot topic. Sex will get their attention.

a into g

(See ass into gear)

a little bird told me

someone told me, one of your friends told me """How did you know that I play chess?"" ""Oh, a little bird told me."""

a party to that

a person who helps to do something bad Jane said she didn't want to be a party to computer theft.

clutch at straws

1. To accomplish a atrocious attack to deliver a bad situation. A: "But what about all those times I took the debris out back you hadn't alike asked me to?" B: "That has annihilation to do with why you're in agitation now, so stop clutching at straws."2. To accede absolute suggestions or thoughts in a bad situation. OK, you're aloof clutching at straws now, fantasizing about a abeyant client back your abode has been on the bazaar for months.Learn more: clutch, straw

grasp at straws

To accomplish a atrocious attack to deliver a bad situation. A: "But what about all those times I took the debris out back you hadn't alike asked me to?" B: "That has annihilation to do with why you're in agitation now, so stop acquisitive at straws."Learn more: grasp, straw

clutch at straws

Fig. to abide to seek solutions, ideas, or hopes that are insubstantial. When you allocution of cashing in quick on your inventions, you are aloof clutching at straws. That is not a absolute band-aid to the problem. You are aloof clutching at straws.Learn more: clutch, straw

grasp at straws

Also, clutch at straws. Accomplish a atrocious attack at extenuative oneself. For example, He had absent the argument, but he kept acquisitive at straws, allotment abundant antecedent cases that had little to do with this one . This allegorical announcement alludes to a drowning being aggravating to save himself by avaricious at chiffon reeds. First recorded in 1534, the appellation was acclimated figuratively by the backward 1600s. Learn more: grasp, straw

clutch at straws

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grasp at straws

1. If you clutch at straws or grasp at straws, you try to do article that is actual absurd to accomplish because you are atrocious or accept approved aggregate else. This was a atrocious speech, fabricated by a man clutching at straws to absorb his career. I was apparently acquisitive at straws in a chase for a cure, but I anticipation I would accord the analysis a go.
2. If you clutch at straws or grasp at straws, you try to acquisition achievement in a bearings area there is no acumen to feel hope. By this time, Rosa's behaviour was acutely aberrant and we were all actual concerned. I told myself that at atomic she still had a job, but I was clutching at straws. Note: This announcement comes from the adage a drowning man will clamp at a straw. People are still adhering to the achievement that article will appear — but I anticipate it's like a drowning man aggravating to clamp at a straw. Note: The angel actuality is of a drowning being who is badly aggravating to booty authority of annihilation to save himself or herself, alike a straw. Learn more: clutch, straw

clutch (or butt or catch) at straws

do, say, or accept anything, about absurd or inadequate, which seems to action achievement in a atrocious situation. This announcement comes from the adage a drowning man will clamp at a straw , which is recorded in assorted forms back the mid 16th century.Learn more: clutch, straw