"A drowning man will clutch at a straw" nghĩa là gì?
Fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) drive a tank in the al-Zohour neighbourhood of northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on 2 August. Photo credit: AFP.
'A drowning man will clutch at a straw' nghĩa là sắp chết đuối thì vớ được cọng rơm cũng bám lấy.
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It is as a result of this hope that Ghanaians have held on to promises made by the President and officials tasked with ending the darkness being experienced the way a drowning man will clutch at a straw to stay afloat.
Granted, as the famous saying goes: ‘A drowning man will clutch at a straw, however, will the alliance with PKK affiliated group serve its purpose and remedy the IS epidemic in Syria proper in the medium to long run?
And like the saying, a drowning man will clutch at a straw, it was no doubt that few apologists of this drowning government will clutch to the postponement of elections, or more self-defeating – engineer an extension of President Koroma’s term for another two years, with the postponement of both the Census and the Constitutional Review.
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