clutch

kytkin

käsilaukku

joukko

tarrautuminen

takertua To seize, as though with claws. (defdate)

to clutch power

A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.

Is this a dagger which I see before me (..)? / Come, let me clutch thee.

She clutched her purse tightly and walked nervously into the building.

Not that I have the power to clutch my hand.

the clutch of poverty

an expiring clutch at popularity

I must have (..) little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant.

You scold yourself; you know it is only your nerves—and yet, and yet... In a little while it is impossible to resist the terror that seizes you, and you are helpless in the clutch of an unseen horror.

The clutch which I had made to save myself in falling had torn away this chin-band and let the lower jaw drop on the breast; but little else was disturbed, and there was Colonel John Mohune resting as he had been laid out a century ago.

I start with his most obvious characteristic: he was clutch. He is Mr. Clutch. In the last chapter I mentioned that Bernie Williams was clutch, which was a valid assessment, but nobody on the Yankees was as clutch as Jeter was.

No longer would Britons routinely blame the national government when things went wrong. Instead they would demand action from a new clutch of elected mayors, police commissioners and the like.

trå in clutchen - step on the clutch