straw-grasping
English
Noun
straw-grasping (uncountable)
- The act of grasping at straws.
- 2020 December 21, Jason Wilson, “Sky News Australia is increasingly pushing conspiracy theories to a global audience online”, in The Guardian:
- Some of this is simply dead ender-claptrap: straw-grasping and copium for Trumpists who are struggling to assimilate the new reality.