SINKING

Phrase(s): *a sinking feeling the feeling that everything is going wrong; a bad feeling in the base of one’s stomach. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) • I get a sinking feeling whenever I think of the night of the accident.

سینکینگ, نخ مغروق

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ورودی Sinking

لیدر سینکینگ, پیش نخ مغروق

A sense of dread or apprehension, as in I had a sinking feeling that I'd forgotten my ticket. This expression employs sink in the sense of "become depressed," a usage dating from the early 1600s.

Phrase(s): desert a sinking ship [and] leave a sinking ship Fig. to leave a place, a person, or a situation when things become difficult or unpleasant. (Rats are said to be the first to leave a ship that is sinking.) • I hate to be the one to desert a sinking ship, but I can’t work for a company that continues to lose money. • There goes Tom. Wouldn’t you know he’d leave a sinking ship rather than stay around and try to help?

مهره‌ ساز

Phrase(s): leave a sinking ship Go to desert a sinking ship.

Phrase(s): like rats abandoning a sinking ship Go to Rats abandon a sinking ship.

Phrase(s): Rats abandon a sinking ship. [and] like rats abandoning a sinking ship Prov. You can tell when something is about to fail because large numbers of people begin to leave it. (Can imply that the people who leave are "rats," that is, selfish and disloyal.) • Jill: The company next door must be going bankrupt. Jane: How do you know? Jill: All its employees are resigning. Rats abandon a sinking ship.