like rats from a sinking ship
like rats from a sinking ship
With great haste and having only personal wellbeing 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.
See also: like, rat, ship, sink
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- like rats abandoning a sinking ship
- like rats deserting a sinking ship
- rats deserting a sinking ship
- like rats leaving a sinking ship
- be in great haste
- haste
- someone or something owes you a living
- the world owes you a living
- think something/someone owes you a living
- think the world owes (one) a living