(a) sinking ship

(a) sinking ship
a company or other organization that is failing.

He'd seen the company's accounts, realized he was on a sinking ship, and decided to get off.


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  • like a rat deserting a sinking ship — If people leave a company because they know that it s about to have serious problems, or turn their back on a person about to be in a similar situation, they are said to be like rats deserting a sinking ship …   The small dictionary of idiomes

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