Learn the English Phrases GRASPING AT STRAWS and THE LAST STRAW

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases GRASPING AT STRAWS and THE LAST STRAW In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase, grasping at straws. When you are grasping at straws, you want something to be true or you want something to be right but you know you have very little chance of proving it or getting it. Here’s a great example. Let’s say you answered a question on a math test and the answer was eight and you wrote six instead of eight. If you went t