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like rats from a sinking ship
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 | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Balakrishna | | - | Indian, Telugu, Kannada |
Zeynab | | - | Azerbaijani, Persian |
Rafaela | | - | Spanish, Portuguese, Macedonian |
Madison | | ['mædisn] | |
May | | MAY | English |
Mary | | MER-ee (English), MAR-ee (English) | English, Biblical |