In use: When they found out they had to spend money on a new uniform, the tennis club members quit like rats leaving a sinking ship. Meaning: literally, a rat used by scientists for research ...

From the market’s perspective, it may look like rats jumping off a sinking ship.” Jay Ritter, of the University of Florida’s ...

The rats come ashore by way of the gangplanks and ropes tied to the dock. If the ship is sinking, the rats swim. Once a few rats reach shore, a colony is quickly established, and the bird ...

Waltz isn't letting them go without calling them out. "Of course, the head rat would leave the sinking ship," Waltz told SkyNews. "Leave the mess for others to clean up and retreat into some ...