like rats deserting 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 deserting a sinking ship. Like rats deserting a sinking ship, the disgraced athlete's corporate sponsors began pulling their sponsorships one after another.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yehoshafat	-	Biblical Hebrew
Amandine	a-mawn-DEEN	French
Adebayo	-	Western African, Yoruba
Hinds	[haindz]
Mbali	-	Southern African, Zulu
Georgijs	-	Latvian