Straw-grasping

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  1. 1
    The act of grasping at straws. uncountable

    "Some of this is simply dead ender-claptrap: straw-grasping and copium for Trumpists who are struggling to assimilate the new reality."

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"Some of this is simply dead ender-claptrap: straw-grasping and copium for Trumpists who are struggling to assimilate the new reality."

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