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Drowning men càtch at straws. Persons in desperate circumstances cling in hope to trifles wholly inadequate to rescue or even help them.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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