Desperate Phrases

Phrases

• A drowning man will clutch at a straw
• A forlorn hope
• As miserable as sin
• Backs to the wall
• Brothers In Arms (Dire Straits album)
• Counsel of despair
• Depths of despair
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Desperate Housewives (2004 comedy drama television series)
• Desperate measures
• Dire consequences
• Get to the end of your tether
• Hang on like grim death
• In a critical condition

• In dire straits
• Last resort
• Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair (from a poem by Shelley)
• Miserable specimen
• Mission critical
• Money For Nothing (Dire Straits song)
• Most men live lives of quiet desperation
• On the critical list
• Parlous state
• Scraping the bottom of the barrel
• The worried well
• Up against it
• Worried sick