Citations:straw-clutchingly

Adverb: "in a manner which involves clutching at straws"

 * 1999, Bryn Palmer, "Same again for men in black", The Scotsman, 22 October 1999:
 * In other words, any Scottish supporter who had straw-clutchingly hoped for a fitness crisis in the All Blacks game has been disappointed.
 * 2007, Freya North, Pillow Talk, Sourcebooks Landmark (2011), ISBN 9781402254468, page 105:
 * However, in those heightened milliseconds of being able to circumnavigate the entire scene of her imminent destruction, Petra knows that her straw-clutchingly pathetic notion is far from the truth.
 * 2010, John Carlin, "Are Barcelona simply the greatest team of all time?", The Independent, 8 April 2010:
 * Manchester United who, in the conventional thinking, are a more robust, less effete team than Wenger's were just as straw-clutchingly inept against Barcelona in the Champions League final last May.
 * 2013, Michael Hogan, "The time is right for a female Doctor Who", The Telegraph, 2 August 2013:
 * The half-hour show will be hosted by Zoe Ball and fans are already speculating that this could be a hint that we’re about to see the first female Doctor in the show’s 50-year history.
 * That might be a straw-clutchingly tenuous theory but the time is certainly right.