straws

I think the economist is deliberately grasping at the wrong straws.

But people pretending the thing isn't used and isn't supported are really grasping at straws here.

Rogers would have seemed less like a rational stakeholder, and more like someone grasping for straws.

It feels like Rackspace is grasping at straws to differentiate their products from the competition.

The only thing that's natural is writers and journalists grasping at straws to find poignant things to say about perceived controversies.

The claims about vegetarianism struck me as clutching at straws just to be contrarian.

A large portion of their other projects are just sort of grasping at straws to see if there is some sort of business there.

So...): go on the inside and work on problems from there, because if you're connecting firehoses to drinking straws, you're doing more harm than good.

Cause if we start talking about it, then we're gonna be here all day talking about it, making diagrams with straws.

These are the proverbial last straws that led me unsubscribe to Rolling Stone this evening: The publishing of a fake rape story at the University of Virginia.

If your coding a quick fix for something and there is a code frease in 20 minutes your not grasping at straws wondering do they mean 100 numbers list or a 100 gigabyte list etc.

Some of these points are obvious grasping at straws.

I like the argument "but but but what if the drone accidentally delivers a handgun to a kid think of the children"--kinda reaching for straws.

But as a skeptic of this True Greatness, I'm perhaps grasping at straws in saying "hey look, anyone can screw up, True Greatness, phooey".

Remember that time that one of the IAmA mods went "It's been a good run, I'm shutting it down?") So in retrospect, maybe all the other straws should have been obvious from the start.