sinking ship
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Adrift and emasculated, Stan is less a patriarch than the defeated captain of a sinking ship, drowning in his futility.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025
When Kent fast bowler Martin McCague, raised in Western Australia, played for England in the early 1990s the Aussie media called him "the rat that joined the sinking ship".
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2024
Who buys a ticket to get on a sinking ship?
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024
Were that not sufficiently beyond the pale, their client then took the helm of the sinking ship and plunged it farther into the rocks by repeating the same lies directly to the judge.
From Slate • Jan. 16, 2024
He splashed around, acting like he was a pirate on a sinking ship.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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