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Ship Rats Abandoning Sinking Switched Candidate Began Lose

Idiom Rats Abandoning a Sinking Ship
Example Like rats abandoning a sinking ship, they switched to the other candidate when theirs began to lose.
Meaning disloyal people who desert a failing enterprise before it's too late
Origin This idiom has been known since at least the 1500s. There was an old superstition among sailors that if they saw rats jumping off a ship that was still tied up in port, that was an omen that the ship would end in disaster. We now use this phrase to describe cowardly, unfaithful human beings who forsake something or someone they once supported because they think bad times are coming.

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