Salmond hit him with well-aimed jabs After two weeks of floundering in response, Better Together eventually ended the crisis by asserting that Scottish ministers had complete autonomy over NHS policy and spending in Scotland.
I found myself floundering when I tried to answer these, either overcomplicating matters or abruptly changing the subject ("Oh look – a squirrel!").
Allen went on to say that he was "floundering" with the medium, and that he expected the show to be "a cosmic embarrassment".
In its latest World Drug Report, the United Nations acknowledges (pdf): "While new harmful substances have been emerging with unfailing regularity on the drug scene, the international drug control system is floundering, for the first time, under the speed and creativity of the phenomenon".
"Our team was just a bunch of floundering farm boys.
The pope, their supposed leader, is still floundering, far, far behind them.
In spite of this, Amy is floundering, and this is where Faking It shows its sophistication.
Since arriving at Carrow Road in January, when Norwich were floundering in 10th spot, Neil has transformed the Norfolk club.
With Mr Burnham floundering in the face of questions about how the mansion tax will work, and when it will start to bring in the promised cash, it compounds the impression that Labour may be thinking too much about exploiting its reputation among voters as the party of the NHS at the next election, and not enough – or not hard enough – about the severity of the challenges ahead.
He left defenders floundering with his strength and speed and sent a booming kick through the big sticks from around 50 metres.
Everyone agrees that America's public schools are floundering, and NCLB is widely considered to have failed.NCLB, enacted in 2002, transformed education policy.
