clutch. clutching your pearls. All of you clutching your pearls need to get real. cluching her face in grief

cluching her face in grief Sophia Loren   索菲亞·羅蘭悲痛地摀住臉

 clutching your pearls

shocked

disapproving. to behave as if you are very shocked, especially when you show more shock than you really feel in order to show that you think something is morally bad: They clutch their pearls at the rest of the nation's obesity.6 days ago

Meaning of clutch your pearls in English - Cambridge Dictionary

clutch¹

/klʌtʃ/

verb

gerund or present participle: clutching

1. grasp (something) tightly.

   "he stood clutching a microphone"

Age appropriate?  All of you clutching your pearls need to get real. 45 years ago my friends and I were passing around copies of Forever by Judy Blume, Flowers in the Attic, and Go Ask Alice. We all turned out fine.  If you want to monitor something, monitor your kids at home . The internet is much more dangerous than any book could be.  Heck, from the sound of some of you……it would be a celebration if your offspring cracked open a book.

適合年齡嗎？ 所有緊抓珍珠????的人都需要認清現實。 45 年前，我和朋友傳閱了茱蒂·布魯姆的《永遠》、《閣樓裡的花》和《去問愛麗絲》。一切都很好。 如果你想監控某些東西，那就監控你家裡的孩子吧。網路比任何書籍都危險得多。 哎呀，從你們中的一些人的聲音來看......如果你的後代打開一本書，那將是一件值得慶祝的事情。

clutch

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verb

ˈkləch 

clutched; clutching; clutches

Synonyms of clutch

transitive verb

1

: to grasp or hold with or as if with the hand or claws usually strongly, tightly, or suddenly

He clutched his chest and appeared to be in pain.

2

obsolete : clench

intransitive verb

1

: to seek to grasp and hold

clutched at her hand

2

: to operate an automobile clutch (see clutch entry 2 sense 2a)

clutch

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noun (1)

1

a

: the claws or a hand in the act of grasping or seizing firmly

a rabbit in the clutch of a hawk

b

: an often cruel or unrelenting control, power, or possession

the fell clutch of circumstance—W. E. Henley

c

: the act of grasping, holding, or restraining

2

a

: a coupling used to connect and disconnect a driving and a driven part (such as an engine and a transmission) of a mechanism

b

: a lever (such as a pedal) operating such a clutch

Depress the clutch to change gears.

3

: a tight or critical situation : pinch

come through in the clutch

4

: clutch bag

clutch

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adjective

1

: made or done in a crucial situation

a clutch hit

2

: successful in a crucial situation

a clutch pitcher

a clutch hitter

clutch

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noun (2)

1

: a nest of eggs or a brood of chicks

2

: group, bunch

talking with a clutch of her friends

a clutch of photographs

a clutch of reporters