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Chris -- 2018-04-11
As a colorful term for a final gesture, ‘last grasp’ works about as well as ‘last gasp,’ but ‘last gasp’ is the established idiom. It gets 2million ghits vs. 20k for ‘last grasp,’ and many of those 20k are literal and correct uses of the phrase. Sometimes, though, especially when people write about a last grasp of breath, it’s clear that an accidental substitution has been made. Examples:
Because it is the actions of your people for past 800 years that has left our nation dying with its last grasp of breath.
www.middleeastinfo.org/forum/index.php? … &pid=89538
OK… this is a sort of postumous record, the last grasp of air of a great musician.
www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7851
Until the last drop of blood leaves my veins, until the last grasp of breath leaves my lungs, may my blood write down these words…
www.notpopular.com/lyrics/viewLyrics.php?AlbumID=444
As for a last grasp of desperation and an immediate change to the team, bench Sam Kellar and play anybody…
www.huskerzone.com/2007/10/08/revenge-i … rved-cold/
For in blood I wept my last grasp of breath…
gettherhythm.com/c/cimmerian_path/malignant_amour.html
The chorus is the last grasp of sanity for these already disturbed people.
www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Stud … opher.html
It’s their last grasp of independence. It is particularly traumatic for men to give up their cars.
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E3D9173FF936A25751C1A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewan
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