catch at straws 的 2 个定义
- a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- a mass of such stalks, especially after drying and threshing, used as fodder.
- material, fibers, etc., made from such stalks, as used for making hats or baskets.
- (8)
- of, pertaining to, containing, or made of straw: a straw hat.
- of the color of straw; pale yellow.
- of little value or consequence; worthless.
- sham; fictitious.
catch at straws 近义词
等同于 quibble
catch at straws 的近义词 34 个
- bicker
- carp
- spar
- squabble
- waffle
- wrangle
- altercate
- argufy
- avoid
- cavil
- chicane
- criticize
- dispute
- equivocate
- evade
- fence
- flip-flop
- hassle
- pettifog
- pretend
- prevaricate
- shift
- argue over
- blow hot and cold
- have at it
- hem and haw
- hypercriticize
- make a big thing about
- nit-pick
- paralogize
- put up an argument
- set to
- split hairs
- talk back
catch at straws 的反义词 6 个
等同于 pettifog
catch at straws 的近义词 36 个
- altercate
- argufy
- avoid
- bicker
- carp
- cavil
- chicane
- criticize
- dispute
- equivocate
- evade
- fence
- flip-flop
- hassle
- niggle
- nitpick
- pretend
- prevaricate
- shift
- spar
- squabble
- waffle
- wrangle
- argue over
- blow hot and cold
- have at it
- hem and haw
- hypercriticize
- make a big thing about
- nit-pick
- paralogize
- pick to pieces
- put up an argument
- set to
- split hairs
- talk back
catch at straws 的反义词 6 个
由catch at straws构成的短语
- straw boss
- straw in the wind
- straw that breaks the camel's back
- straw vote
- draw straws
- grasp at straws
- last straw
- make bricks without straw
- not worth a dime (straw)
更多catch at straws例句
- For years, the top complaint about the product was that people lost the little red straw that came with each can.
- They’re like high-end veggie straws you get in the snack aisle.
- For a surface with boundary, such as a straw with its two boundary circles, each cut must begin and end on a boundary.
- She was a tough act to follow, and the guy who drew the short straw was Garth Brooks.
- Such defiance from the tech giants was a final straw for Museveni.
- Most of it is taken up by a graphic inviting the visitor to participate in the 2016 online presidential straw poll.
- Exactly one month after the first straw goat was erected in Gävle, it was mysteriously burned to a crisp.
- I thanked him, sat down on the sofa, and sipped it through the straw.
- Hana seeks refuge from the buzzing lights of Otome Road in a nearby café and makes another swirl with her straw.
- She slowly moves her straw through the whipped cream in her designer latte and looks up.
- Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.
- He reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head.
- In fact, so much of her smooth brow as could be seen under a broad-brimmed straw hat was wrinkled in a decided frown.
- He put on his big straw hat, and taking his umbrella from the stand in the hall, followed the lady in black, never overtaking her.
- The clear, straw-colored fluid which is left after separation of the coagulum is called blood-serum.