by Samantha Marie Baker March 27, 2015
Get the citch mug.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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Monti: I was munching this hoe's clam flesh when the giant clithanger nearly suffocated me to death.
Shanza: Ohh man that is the worst... I nearly suffocated when I came out my mums womb because of her everest-like clithanger.
Shanza: Ohh man that is the worst... I nearly suffocated when I came out my mums womb because of her everest-like clithanger.
by The Clyde October 16, 2012
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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.
by Emdeecee January 3, 2008
Get the pearl clutcher mug.An extremely easily-offended person, especially to the point of histrionic screaming and grandstanding.
by Nixie Flatline February 7, 2018
Get the pearl-clutcher mug."The story we read in class today was so clicheic; I was bored out of my mind by its disturbing predictability and lack of originality."
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