藁わらにもすがる思おもいで

expression, adverb

hoping against hope; desperately hoping; as a last hope

An idiomatic expression describing a situation where one clings to even the slightest, most unreliable hope, like a drowning person grasping at a straw. Often used adverbially to modify verbs of seeking, asking, or relying.

• 藁わらにもすがる思おもいで、彼かれはその情じょう報ほうを信しんじた。

  Hoping against hope, he believed that information.

• 藁わらにもすがる思おもいで、私わたしはその治ち療りょう法ほうを試ためした。

  As a last hope, I tried that treatment.