clutch/grasp at straws
to be willing to try anything to improve a difficult or unsatisfactory situation, even if it has little chance of success:
She offered to take a pay cut to keep her job, but she was just clutching at straws.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wanting things
- ache for sth
- acquisitive
- ambitious
- angle
- angle for sth
- aspirant
- burn
- fancy
- finger
- hanker after/for sth
- have your eye on sth idiom
- hunger
- hunger after/for sth
- hungry
- shook
- sight
- sth is calling you idiom
- straw
- tempt
- think big idiom
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