Thursday, March 31, 2011

Occur To and Rats Off The Ship


Today's phrasal verb is Occur To, which means:
For a thought or idea to enter one's mind

Didn't it occur to you to help me when you saw how much trouble I was in?
It didn't occur to him to lock the door.   
Would it ever occur to you that I want to be left alone?  
 Did it occur to you to call my apartment to see if I was there?  
It never occurred to me to ask where she'd been.
 It hadn't occurred to her that she would be expected to ride a bike.
 
Notes: often used in the form not occur to you. Inseparable and intransitive
Synonyms:  dawn on, strike, appear, hit, cross your mind, come to mind

Today's idiom is (Like) Rats Off A (Sinking)Ship, which means:
People who abandon, forsake, desert, "ditch" or run when difficulties arise, or when things get bad, they are compared to rats jumping off a sinking ship. They flee a "lost cause" because they weren't committed to it.

When a ship is about to sink, rats are usually the first aboard it to depart.  They are said to have very good instincts about this. The rats jump off and swim away because they know the ship is doomed and that they need to swim to safety.  Some people, like rats,  are only concerned for their own safety, well-being and self-interest and will not stay to help prevent the ship from sinking or to help others, unlike the captain and the men on the ship who try their best to save the "ship", which they are loyal to.  The "ship", in this case, is a metaphor for a cause or  some other sort of social organization, such as a business company. You can tell when something is about to fail because large numbers of people begin to leave it.  These people are "rats", i.e., they are selfish and disloyal.  In the rats defense, sometimes this is a great idea and the very best thing to do.

Jill: The company next door must be going bankrupt. Jack: How do you know? Jill: All its employees are resigning. Jack: Like rats off a sinking ship, eh?
Either you're loyal to this cause or your not.  All rats off the ship now.  We don't need you.  Only those who still believe in it should remain in order to keep this effort afloat.

"What can I say? I could smell that the ship was sinking"

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