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  • Shorter passive-agressive, pearl-clutcher extraordinaire Raphael Alexander: Of all the nerve!

    Archive 2008-10-01 CC 2008

  • And the final clutcher for tentative students - post a listing and it will get fed straight to your Facebook account.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Jon Bischke 2006

  • Are you a “clutcher,” hugging your bag close to your body with a death grip?

    “I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003

  • Are you a “clutcher,” hugging your bag close to your body with a death grip?

    “I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003

  • He is an open-faced, hefty man, a reformed cigar smoker, friendly in manner, a slapper of backs and a clutcher of arms, earnest, interested, quick to take a point, and open to new ideas.

    The Trouble with the CIA Powers, Thomas 2002

  • He was a clutcher setting me up for the others and I think of him as Number Four.

    Shattered Francis, Dick 2000

  • Catching up on the news about a glorious weekend off, I see the wingnut pearl clutcher today is over Obama's handshake with Hugo Chavez.

    The Impolitic 2009

  • But this is not the seamless, creamy-smooth shifting of which a double-clutcher is theoretically capable.

    Motoring 2009

  • This breed of cellar-dwelling tablet-clutcher marches legions of suck in lockstep in front of them like a shepherd for the weak of intellect, because not only have they come up with something thoroughly bereft of innovation and pluck, they think they are abundantly clever for doing it.

    COMIXTALK 2009

  • All right, it's a straw-clutcher, but stranger things have happened ... just look at Jedward. ray_likethefish on Twitter: "Keep an eye on Bordeaux's Gourcuff.

    British Blogs BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2010

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