pique
a pique
sinking
Other boats lay on their oars in the vicinity of the sinking ship, a few survivors being rescued from the water.
a punto de irse a pique
on the rocks
Marriage is on the rocks in Britain, with the proportion of unmarried people exceeding that of married people as more men and women opt to live together without constraints.
echar a pique
scuttle
torpedo
Three bills intended to scuttle affirmative action in California were left in dry dock when the committee refused to pass them.
What advantage lay in torpedoing what were bilateral talks in all but name, just as they had got underway?.
irse a pique [Coloquial]
bite + the dust
give up + the ghost
come + unstuck
go + pear-shaped
go + kaput
be kaput
go + haywire
go down + the tube
go down + the drain
be up the spout
be dead in the water
go + belly up
go + tits up
become + a shambles
The article 'Interchange bites the dust' comments on the decision by AT&T to abandon the Interchange online service technology.
This article examines one such example, Cherrie Moraga's 'Giving Up the Ghost' where, for the first time, the issue of Chicana lesbian sexuality is addressed on the stage.
Bright people will always manage towork out the technology but it is the higher-level issues and processes that usually cause a project to come unstuck.
The test on the new machines went pear-shaped: nothing really worked properly and they had to install everything again.
With oil at $76 a barrel, it won't be long until it all goes kaput!.
I had a mechanic chap take a gander earlier on and he said it's possible the pedal itself is kaput, as in there's something fishy going on with the mechanics of it.
They left a trail of destruction in the wake of a plan gone haywire.
No wonder their paper is going down the tube with their trashy reporting.
These businesses were growing rapidly until 1964 when the economy started to go down the drain and manufacturing was not anymore profitable.
Their email system has been up the spout since Saturday preventing the staff from communicating everyday matters and causing extensive housekeeping delays.
Unfortunately the project is officially dead in the water.
Our ISP (Internet Service Provider) went belly up 10 days ago and we have been unable to send & receive emails since.
At least Justin will have his 100 million dollars to fall back on if things do go tits up.
Over the course of a few months, her life became a shambles.
