| 单词 | desert a sinking ship |
| 释义 | desert a sinking shipAbandon a failing enterprise before it is too late. For example, After seeing the company's financial statement, he knew it was time to desert a sinking ship. This metaphoric expression alludes to rats, which leave a vessel when it founders in a storm or runs aground so as to escape drowning. It was transferred to human behavior by about 1600. Words nearby desert a sinking shipdesensitization, desensitize, Deseret, deserpidine, desert, desert a sinking ship, Desert boot, desert boots, desert cooler, Desert Culture, desert devil The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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