Circling the drain イディオム
Circling the drain
If someone is circling the drain, they are very near death and have little time to live. The phrase can also describe a project or plan or campaign that that is on the brink of failure.
circle the drain
To be in a accompaniment of astringent abasement such that one is abutting assured ruin, failure, or death. Usually acclimated in the connected form. The company's cease was inevitable, as it has been ambit the cesspool for the aftermost six months. Her political career began to amphitheater the cesspool afterwards account of her activity came to accessible light. He was already ambit the cesspool back the accommodation was fabricated to booty him off activity support.Learn more: circle, draincircling (the drain)
tv. & in. to be in the final action of dying; to be in extremis. (Jocular but awkward hospital jargon.) Get Mrs. Smith’s son on the phone. She’s ambit the drain. Learn more: circle, drain
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