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The phrase "a drowning man will" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a saying or proverb that implies that someone in a desperate situation will do anything to save themselves or seek help.
Example: "A drowning man will clutch at a straw, hoping for any chance of survival."
Alternatives: "a desperate person will" or "someone in crisis will".

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A drowning man will hang on to a straw".

"A drowning man will reach for a straw," Williams said of Casey.

But just as a drowning man will reach out for any life preserver, Politico's GOP Insiders found, in Mike Pence's serviceable debate performance, a reason to believe.

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It's the violent desperation of a drowning man who will clutch at anything, even a child, even his own child.

If you reach out, as I spent all those years doing, like a drowning man for a scrap of wood, then you'll most likely flail until you and your technique sink together in an unhappy mass.

After a few minutes, they will seek external stimulation the way a drowning man seeks the surface of the water.

Dick lashed himself to women like a drowning man to a rock in a storm.

IRAQIS like to quote an Arab proverb: "A drowning man is not worried about getting wet".

Jokes, even bad jokes, may extend a hand to a drowning man.

I am engulfed in this despair like a drowning man by the sea.

They say that a drowning man's past life flashes before his eyes.

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