Out of desparation, the act of reaching or stretching for a solution, no matter how irrational or inconsequential. Literally - a drowning person who, unable to find any substantial floatation immediately at had, attempts to save himself from certain death by grabbing hold of a few stray pieces of straw floating on the water within arm's length.
The Senator from Florida, caught red-handed sending lewd and lascivious text messages to underage male pages, was clutching at straws for an alibi and escape. Alcoholism? Resignation?
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Get the Q-Celtic mug.Communist / Socialist measure of temperature. Combination of Celcius and Centegrade. Texas American slang for foreign temeprature measurement. The "Commie" way to measure temperature. .
English boy: "Mummy, Mummy, it's soooo hot here in Texas, it must be 30 degrees out and I think I am going to die.
Texas Man: "Shut yer trap, boy, we dern't use that thar commie Celtigrade 'round here it's only 90 degrees out and you ain't gonna die, ya little pissant.
Texas Man: "Shut yer trap, boy, we dern't use that thar commie Celtigrade 'round here it's only 90 degrees out and you ain't gonna die, ya little pissant.
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Get the much in the clutch mug.An uptight person, usually but not always female, usually but not always of conservative mores, who reacts with shock, feigned or otherwise, at other people's violations of decorum, propriety, morality, and so forth.
Someone got up at the PTA meeting and suggested the school hand out condoms to teenagers. The pearl clutchers in the audience nearly went into cardiac arrest.
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