grope after someone or something
- grope after someone or something
grope after someone or something
to reach for a departing or fleeing person or thing awkwardly or ineffectually. •
The feeble hand groped after the departing form.
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I groped after the cat as it ran under the bed.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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