| 单词 | to rearrange the deckchairs on the titanic | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic   Originally U.S. to rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic and variants: denoting pointless or futile activity in the face of disaster. ΚΠ 1969    L. Carpenter in  Washington Post 17 Jan.  b10/1  				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. 1973    Barron's National Business & Financial Weekly 10 Sept. 1/1  				Brokerage firms are merging (which..someone has likened to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic). 1995    Methodist Recorder 3 Aug. 24/3  				It was like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic while the ship went down. 2014    Daily Tel. 25 Apr. (Business section) 6/6  				Premier said it had been ‘liberated from its past’ by the capital reorganisation but Questor believes it is more a case of moving the deckchairs on the Titanic. < as lemmas | 
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