捞稻草

(fig.) to clutch at straws (in desperation) / to take advantage of the situation (unscrupulously)

Characters and words in 捞稻草

to fish up / to dredge up

= + : The hardworking laborer (劳) is dredging (捞) up the floor in front of the aorta (ao1) with a toy claw (扌) when suddenly he fishes (捞) the skeleton of Sir Lancelot (l) out of the dirt.
paddy / rice (Oryza sativa)

= + : Don Quixote (d) is on his new job for the first day in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). He's supposed to work as a scarecrow (稻草人) to protect the rice paddy (稻), but instead he is scooping up (舀) all the rice (稻) and puts it in his cereals (禾).
variant of 草[cao3]

= + : The King of Chu has an important appointment today, so he set a special alarm the day before. Before he went to sleep on his artificial lawn, he set up a bale of straw just above his artificial lawn; when the alarm goes off the bale of straw will fall down on him and wake him up.
grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]

= + : The King of Chu has an important appointment today, so he set a special alarm the day before. Before he went to sleep on his artificial lawn, he set up a bale of straw just above his artificial lawn; when the alarm goes off the bale of straw will fall down on him and wake him up.
variant of 肏[cao4]

Words with 捞稻草

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Sentences with 捞稻草

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