Significado: abandon a sinking ship

abandonar um navio naufragado, abandonar um navio que está afundando; abandonar uma empresa ou organização que está fracassando

sink Idioma

everything but the kitchen sink

almost everything, the whole works We put everything in his truck, everything but the kitchen sink!

hook, line and sinker

without question or doubt, completely She fell in love with her new boyfriend hook, line and sinker.

sink (get) one

have something real or solid to think about, struggle with I was finally able to sink my teeth into the problem and began to find a solution.

sink in

to penetrate, become understood What he said hasn

sink one

go to work seriously It

sink or swim

fail or succeed by your own efforts He will have to sink or swim when he begins his new job.

sinking feeling

"feeling of failure; despair" When I saw the ambulance at our house, I got a sinking feeling.

sink/soak in

1．（cause to）sink into陷入；沉入
If the ink sinks in it'll be hard to remove the spot from the cloth．布一沾到墨水，墨迹就很难洗净。
2．be absorbed， understood or acknowledged被充分理解或领会
I think it has finally sunk in that she must be more careful：she won't forget her passport again！我想她终于领悟到她必须更加小心，她再也不会忘了她的护照！
Everybody laughed at the joke but Joe；it took a moment for it to sink in before he laughed too．除了乔每个人都被这笑话逗乐了，过了一会儿他完全理解过来也笑了。

swallow sth, hook, line, and sinker

Idiom(s): swallow sth, hook, line, and sinker

Theme: BELIEF - GULLIBILITY

to believe something completely. (Slang. These terms refer to fishing and fooling a fish into being caught. Fixed order.)
• I made up a story about why I was so late. The boss swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker.
• I feel like a fool. I swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker.

sink one's teeth into

Idiom(s): sink one's teeth into sth

Theme: EATING

to take a bite of some kind of food, usually a special kind of food.
• I can't wait to sink my teeth into a nice juicy steak.
• Look at that chocolate cake! Don't you want to sink your teeth into that?

sink into despair

Idiom(s): sink into despair

Theme: DEPRESSION

[for someone] to grieve or become depressed.
• After losing all my money, I sank into despair.
• There is no need to sink into despair. Everything is going to be all right.

desert a sinking ship

Idiom(s): desert a sinking ship AND leave a sinking ship

Theme: ABANDONMENT

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 stand it around here anymore.
• There goes Tom. Wouldn't you know he'd leave a sinking ship rather than stay around and try to help?

leave a sinking ship

Loose lips sink ships.

Disclosing important information ( to the enemy or a competitor) could result in large losses.

Hook, line, and sinker

If somebody accepts or believes something hook, line, and sinker, they accept it completely.

Kitchen-sink

(UK) Kitchen-sink drama deals with ordinary people's lives.

Like a rat deserting a sinking ship

If people leave a company because they know that it's about to have serious problems, or turn their back on a person about to be in a similar situation, they are said to be like rats deserting a sinking ship.

Loose lips sink ships

To have loose lips means to have a big mouth, susceptible to talking about everything and everyone. Sinking ships refers to anything from small acquaintances to long and hearty relationships (with friends or a significant other). So when one says loose lips sink ships, one is basically saying if you can't shut up you are going to end hurting people, usually psychologically or emotionally.Loose lips sink ships comes from World War I and/or WWII, when sailors on leave from their ships might talk about what ship they sailed on or where it had come from, or where it was going. If they talked too much (had 'loose lips') they might accidentally provide the enemy with anecdotal information that might later cause their ship to be tracked, and bombed and sunk, hence 'Loose lips sink ships.' Later, it came to mean any excessive talk might sabotage a project.

heart sink|heart|sink

To lose hope, courage, or eagerness; be very disappointed. The soldiers' hearts sank when they saw that they were surrounded by Indians. The children were happy because they were going to the beach to swim, but their hearts sank when it began to rain.

hook, line and sinker|hook|line|sinker

adv. phr., informal Without question or doubt; completely. Johnny was so easily fooled that he fell for Joe's story, hook, line and sinker. Mary was such a romantic girl that she swallowed the story Alice told her about her date, hook, line and sinker. Bobby trusted Jim so he was taken in by his hard-luck story hook, line and sinker.

sink one's teeth into|get|get one's teeth into|sin

v. phr., informal To have something real or solid to think about; go to work on seriously; struggle with. After dinner, John got his teeth into the algebra lesson. Frank chose a subject for his report that he could sink his teeth into.

sink or swim|sink|swim

v. phr. To succeed or fail by your own efforts, without help or interference from anyone else; fail if you don't work hard to succeed. When Joe was fourteen, his parents died, and he was left by himself to sink or swim. Tom's new job was confusing and no one had time to help him learn, so he had to sink or swim.

soak in|sink|sink in|soak

v., informal To be completely understood; be fully realized or felt. Everybody laughed at the joke but Joe; it took a moment for it to sink in before he laughed too. When Frank heard that war had started, it didn't sink in for a long time until his father was drafted into the army.
Compare: BRING HOME.

enough to sink a ship

enough to sink a ship
Also, enough to sink a battleship. A more than sufficient amount, as in They brought enough food to sink a ship. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]

heart sinks, one's

heart sinks, one's
One's courage or hope fails; one is very disappointed or dejected. For example, An hour before the picnic I heard thunder and my heart sank. This expression was first recorded in 1605 but was preceded in the 15th century by one's heart is at one's heels or in one's hose or in one's shoes. The present (and only surviving) usage was first recorded in 1605.

sink

sink
In addition to the idioms beginning with sink, also see desert a sinking ship; enough to sink a ship; everything but the kitchen sink; heart sinks, one's.
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- sink in
- sink one's teeth into
- sink or swim
- sink through the floor
- sinking feeling, a

sink through the floor

sink through the floor
Suffer extreme embarrassment, as in When she called our name on the list of those who owed dues, I sank through the floor. This hyperbolic term dates from the early 1900s.

sinker

sinker
see hook, line, and sinker.

sinking feeling, a

sinking feeling, a
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.