sinking ship | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Something which isdoomed; animpendingdebacle; anongoingdisaster.Synonym:lost cause1910,Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 2, inWhen a Man Marries:He said that[…]Bella had been perfectly right to leave him, because he was asinking ship, and deserved to be turned out penniless into the world.1920April,F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald,This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.:Charles Scribner’s Sons,→OCLC, book II (The Education of a Personage),page255:[…]you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified—and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to thesinking shipof future matrimony.1928,D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter IX, inLady Chatterley’s Lover,[Germany?]: Privately printed,→OCLC:My word, won't it be funny when there's no Tevershall pit working.[…]And now the men say it's asinking ship, and it's time they all got out.2012May 30,Haitham Maleh, “Opinion: A Peace Plan in Name Only”, inNew York Times, retrieved1 August 2012:[T]he only future for Syria is without the Assad political dynasty.[…]The government is asinking ship.

Examples:

EN: Rats abandon a sinking ship.
ES: Cuando el barco se hunde, las ratas huyen.
EN: I don't have to wear myself to the bone for a sinking ship you certainly won't have to out with you, you're fired
ES: ¡No voy a dejarme los huesos por un barco que se hunde! ¡Tampoco podrá hacerlo! ¡Fuera!
EN: We've just received an S.O.S. from a sinking ship. and if we go to the rescue, it may cause us to lose the race.
ES: Recibimos un S.O.S., pero si vamos al rescate, podríamos perder la carrera.
EN: A Loophole never deserts a sinking ship.
ES: Un Loophole nunca abandona un barco que se hunde.
EN: - Abandon the sinking ship.
ES: Muy bien, abandona el barco...
EN: Every wind is bad for a sinking ship.
ES: Todos los vientos son malos para un barco hundido.
EN: Deserting a sinking ship, Cal?
ES: ¿Dejas el barco que se hunde, Cal?
EN: I'm a sinking ship scuttled by my own men.
ES: Soy un barco que se ha ido a pique. Hundido por su propia tripulación.
EN: You thought you were deserting a sinking ship?
ES: ¿Pensasteis que dejabais un barco que se hundía?
EN: Leap from the sinking ship while the house is on fire.
ES: Salta del barco a pique cuando se incendia la casa.
EN: Desert the sinking ship.
ES: Abandonad el barco que se hunde.
EN: Well, nothing specific but he said Barrass, meeting, and something about a sinking ship.
ES: Nada concreto, pero habló de Barrass, la reunión... Y algo sobre un barco hundiéndose.
EN: - Off his sinking ship.
ES: Cuando se hundió su barco.
EN: The way he scuttled out I feel like a sinking ship.
ES: Un desagradable "sálvese quien pueda". Como en un naufragio.
EN: Bertha, you can't desert a sinking ship.
ES: - Bertha, no abandone este barco que se hunde.

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