Phrase thesaurus
Desperation Phrases
12 phrases and expressions related to "desperation".
Phrases
- A drowning man will clutch at a straw
- Backs to the wall
- Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
- Desperate Housewives (2004 comedy drama television series)
- Desperate measures
- Get to the end of your tether
- Hang on like grim death
- Last resort
- Most men live lives of quiet desperation
- Parlous state
- Scraping the bottom of the barrel
- Up against it