sinking ships
Vessels going under
Sinking ships refers to vessels going down, but the phrase appears most often in the expression rats leaving a sinking ship—people abandoning a failing enterprise before it collapses completely.
The image captures self-interested desertion: As soon as the scandal broke, executives started leaving like rats from a sinking ship.
- warshipArmed naval vessel
- failuresUnsuccessful attempts or outcomes
- submarineUnderwater naval craft
- flounderStruggle awkwardly, or seafood
- scuttlingHasty, low scurrying motion
hull · rudder · taking on water · vessels · battleship · torpedoes · cruiser · keel · flooding · bow · lost causes · dead in the water · capsizing · structural failure · collapse · mayday call · SOS signal · downfall
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- Pacific WarPearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Midway, Okinawa, Guadalcanal
viability/success trajectory
sinking shipsrising stars
Emerging promising talents
cash cows · safe bets · rocket ships · sure things · golden geese
sink, sinks, sunken, sinker, sinkers, ship, ships, shipped, shipping