捞稻草 lāodàocǎo to clutch at straws Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 捞稻草 撈稻草 lāo//dàocǎo to clutch at straws To try desperately to find help or hope in a hopeless situation, like a drowning person grasping for straw. to take advantage of To unscrupulously take advantage of a situation for personal gain. Frequency Written text 0.007 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
捞稻草 撈稻草 lāo//dàocǎo to clutch at straws To try desperately to find help or hope in a hopeless situation, like a drowning person grasping for straw. to take advantage of To unscrupulously take advantage of a situation for personal gain. Frequency Written text 0.007 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
