Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
Oft stumbles at a straw.
Straw purchasing is illegal.
I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.
Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
A master of straw eates a servant of steele.
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.