like rats from a sinking ship

With great haste and having only personal well-being in mind. (Typically said of people who begin abandoning something or someone that is failing or about to fail.) I knew the business was doomed when employees started quitting en masse, like rats from a sinking ship. Like rats from a sinking ship, the disgraced athlete's corporate sponsors began pulling their sponsorships one after another.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Harm	HAHRM	Dutch
ElÉOnore	e-le-o-NOR	French
Lisette	['li:zət]
Niamh	NEEV	Irish, Irish Mythology
Nazih	-	Arabic
Taina	TIE-nah	Finnish