Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Synonyymit
Ääntäminen
AU
Käännöksiä ei löytynyt valitulle kohdekielelle.
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (idiomatic) To do something pointless or insignificant that will soon be overtaken by events, or that contributes nothing to the solution of a current problem.
Yritit hakea fraasilla, joka sisältää useita sanoja. Parempien hakutulosten saamiseksi kokeile hakea sanoja erikseen: rearrange, the, deck, chairs, on, the, Titanic
Samankaltaisia sanoja
- deck chairs
- deck-chairs
- rearrange
- rearrange again
- rearrange one's guts
- rearrange one's insides
- rearrange oneself
- rearrange someone's face
- rearrange someone's guts
- rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic -> rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic
- rearrangeability
- rearrangeable
- rearrangeably
- rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic -> rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic
- shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic
Esimerkit
- All the new people want an office close to the President's. You should see them scramble. It's like fighting for a deck chair on the Titanic.
- Administrators are running around straightening out deck chairs while the Titanic goes down.
- I'm not going to rearrange the furniture on the deck of the Titanic.
- The mayor and the city council sit up in their offices with their social programs that don't work. They're rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. (NOTE: Strange Days writer James Cameron was working on his film "Titanic" at the time.)
- Gordon Brown's decision to redefine Britain's economic cycle has been damned by one of the City's most influential economic forecasters, which accuses the Chancellor of the Exchequer of doing little more than "moving the deckchairs on the Titanic".
- "And then you write, ‘Oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.’ First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!"