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Posted June 20, 2014 01:54 · last edited June 20, 2014 01:54

Fitzy wrote:

And now for a moment of pedantry, you've got the expression wrong there Sanday. It's clutching at straw, not clutching at straws.

Is it? I've never heard it as clutching at straw... And google gives 16,000 hits for "clutching at straw" and 500,000 for "clutching at straws"...

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ConanTroutman edited June 20, 2014 01:54

Fitzy wrote:

Sanday wrote:

And now for a moment of pedantry, you've got the expression wrong there Sanday. It's clutching at straw, not clutching at straws.

Is it? I've never heard it as clutching at straw... And google gives 16,000 hits for "clutching at straw" and 500,000 for "clutching at straws...