| 释义 |
dead in the water1(Of a ship) unable to move: the vessel was dead in the water with no engine power...- Although the crew managed to restart the engines in the middle of the night, when rescuing ships arrived she was still dead in the water, her engine room was flooding and she was rolling heavily.
- Communications were established and the aircraft reported the vessel dead in the water with six people on board.
- Two hundred feet below the surface the ship sat dead in the water, not moving.
1.1Unable to function effectively: the economy is dead in the water...- The bad-debt fallout and other effects of this collapse have left the once-dynamic economy dead in the water.
- If we don't put forward some options, we'll be dead in the water.
- We know we have to keep on top of late payments, that cash is the lifeblood of our company and that if we didn't collect, we'd be dead in the water.
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