Credit Market Overview
June 10, 2009
“Grasping at straws” is a phrase we here from time to time and its etymology is actually “A drowning man will catch at straws” first tracked back to ‘Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation’ (1534) by Thomas More (1478-1535). First cited in the United States in ‘Colonial Currency’ (1720). (Thank you Yahoo!… »