Newspapers are really just grasping at straws with these plans to make money.

She grasped at straws, trying to come up with something to change the subject.

"Ellen's being in the middle of all this has me grasping at straws, I guess."

I feel like I'm really grasping at straws here with no physical evidence to go on.

All of those characters grasp at straws when it comes to news.

They were grasping at straws, and the Head admitted it.

And it's possible that, in the end, all the Internet will do is give them a more public way to grasp at virtual straws.

Maybe we're down to the point of grasping at straws.

In part this showed the depth of her fear, that she would grasp at such straws.