Meaning of sinking ship | Babel Free

Definitions

Something which is doomed; an impending debacle; an ongoing disaster.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“He said that […] Bella had been perfectly right to leave him, because he was a sinking ship, and deserved to be turned out penniless into the world.”

“[…]you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified—and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony.”

“My word, won't it be funny when there's no Tevershall pit working. […] And now the men say it's a sinking ship, and it's time they all got out.”

“[T]he only future for Syria is without the Assad political dynasty. […] The government is a sinking ship.”

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