What does straw-clutching mean?

straw-clutching

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English

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Informal

"Every bit of straw-clutching, every bit of hope that Hugh might be alive was followed instantly by a reaction of dismay, of reluctance to pursue it."
"After "little green men" and other straw-clutching explanations had been eliminated, it was realized that the source must be a rotating neutron star."
"Both acts of straw-clutching would come to nothing."

straw-clutchingly

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