grasp at straws
пытаться что-либо делать без надежды на успех; "хвататься за соломенку"
I was grasping at straws, trying to pay back my bank loan.
Другие идиомы:
- get (someone's) goat
- get off one's high horse
- get on one's high horse
- go ape (over someone or something)
- go hog-wild
- go to the dogs
- go whole hog
- get one's ducks in a row
- go to bed with the chickens
- gone goose
- goose bumps
- go/be belly up
- get/have a frog in one's throat
- get/have a lump in one's throat
- get off (someone's) back