English-Dutch translation for "clutch"

clutch {noun} [autom.]

clutch {noun} [autom.]

to clutch [clutched|clutched] {vb} (also: to stir, to seize, to move, to agitate)

to clutch [clutched|clutched] {vb} (also: to pick up, to lay hold of, to pack, to take)

to clutch [clutched|clutched] {vb} (also: to trick, to take in, to fool, to hoax)

to clutch [clutched|clutched] {vb} (also: to seize, to grip, to grasp, to grab)

to clutch [clutched|clutched] {vb} (also: to seize, to grip, to grasp, to grab)

to clutch [clutched|clutched] {vb} (also: to grip, to grasp, to grab, to seize)

to clutch [clutched|clutched] {vb} (also: to grasp, to grapple, to tweak)

     clutch lever

Or are we clutching at straws here?

We really are clutching at straws here.

I see that you're clutching a teddy bear, etc., etc.

I'm going to Little Ray's to get a clutch for the one you broke.

Why don't you do some work here...... and I'll get the clutch.

A second argument for keeping the dismantling of cars out of the manufacturers ' clutches is the cost of transport.

Many people are now beginning to despair, and some are clutching at the idea of using ground troops as a last resort.

Nature has learned to compensate with that, and females have multiple clutches of eggs to overcome those odds.

Lastly, many of you rightly raised the question, the fear of falling into the clutches of economic decline.

Does the power, or the fear, of the aforementioned person extend so far that he already has the People's Party in his clutches?

Researchers asked a group of people to read a clutch of market commentaries, and then predict the next day's price trend.

And on the first day at Simikot in Humla, far west of Nepal, the most impoverished region of Nepal, an old man came in clutching a bundle of rags.

With this, Parliament has reached a result with the Council which is in the interest of all those clutching qualifications and looking for jobs elsewhere in Europe.

The desperate economic situation in their own countries forces many women to clutch at any straw, which makes them easy prey for the traffickers.

In my view, this illustrates the difficult campaign which President Mubarak is waging to keep his country out of the clutches of a fanatical orthodox religious group.

But if sink it must, it is better for it to sink now, while the passengers can still swim ashore, clutching their national currencies like life belts.

Is it really the Council's policy to help bring about a situation in which the money of poor and persecuted people ends up in the clutches of the mafia and similar organisations?