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• And when it came to the clutch, Johnny Mize, who was washed up five years ago, would crack out a pinch double, or Mickey Mantle, who is not yet ready for the big leagues, would slam out a home run
• A clutch is a mechanical device which provides for the transmission of power from one component (the driving member) to another (the driven member).
• 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.
• It doesn't get more clutch than that!
• 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.
• NC State made the most of their overtime possession scoring a touchdown on some very clutch plays.
• But that does not mean he will be clutch. Being great under pressure is hard work. This is part of the reason why we are so impressed by people who seem immune to choking. These people come through in the clutch when others don't.
• "I knew I had to take over," Loyd said. "When it comes to the clutch, I don't mean to be selfish, but I'm going to take it.
• I knew right at that moment (though I certainly believed it before) that you were the kind of person who others could count on, a great foul-weather friend, someone who came through in the clutch.
• Adam Zagorin, Time's Brussels bureau chief, came through in the clutch several times with information and interviews we could not have gotten on our own.
• to clutch power
• 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.
• 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.
• I must have [...] little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant.
• an expiring clutch at popularity
• the clutch of poverty
• Not that I have the power to clutch my hand.
• She clutched her purse tightly and walked nervously into the building.
• Is this a dagger which I see before me [...]? / Come, let me clutch thee.
• A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.