| 单词 | to rearrange the deckchairs on the titanic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic Originally U.S. to rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic and variants: denoting pointless or futile activity in the face of disaster. ΚΠ 1969 L. Carpenter in Washington Post 17 Jan. b10/1 All the new people want an office close to the President's. You should see them scramble—it's like fighting for a deck chair on the Titanic. 1973 Barron's National Business & Financial Weekly 10 Sept. 1/1 Brokerage firms are merging (which..someone has likened to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic). 1995 Methodist Recorder 3 Aug. 24/3 It was like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic while the ship went down. 2014 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. (Business section) 6/6 Premier said it had been ‘liberated from its past’ by the capital reorganisation but Questor believes it is more a case of moving the deckchairs on the Titanic. < as lemmas |
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