Arran Idiom

arrange for

make a plan about sth．for sb．安排；准备
I have arranged for the photographer to take some pictures of the ceremony．我已经安排摄影师为典礼拍些照片。
Who has arranged for the concert？谁组织了这次音乐会？
I've arranged for a car to pick them up at the station．我已安排了一辆车去车站接他们。

sign one's own death warrant

Idiom(s): sign one's own death warrant

Theme: RUIN

to (figuratively) sign a paper that calls for one's death.
• I wouldn't ever gamble a large sum of money. That would be signing my own death warrant.
• The killer signed his own death warrant when he walked into the police station and gave himself up.

Rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic

(UK) If people are rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, they are making small changes that will have no effect as the project, company, etc, is in very serious trouble.

sign one's own death warrant|death warrant|sign|wa

v. phr. To cause your own death or the loss of something you want very much. Mr. Carter had lung trouble, and the doctor told him he would sign his own death warrant if he didn't stop smoking. When Jim's fiancee saw him on a date with another girl, he signed his own death warrant.

arrangements

arrangements
see make arrangements for.

make arrangements for

make arrangements for
Plan or prepare for someone or something, as in Who is making all the arrangements for our sales meeting? This expression employs arrangements in the sense of “measures or preparations for a particular purpose,” a usage dating from the late 1700s.

warrant

warrant
see sign one's own death warrant.