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deck chair
noun
a folding chair, usually with arms and a full-length leg rest, commonly used for lounging on the decks of passenger ships.
Word History and Origins
Origin of deck chair1
Example Sentences
But she sounded skeptical of the county’s proposal, comparing it to the movement of deck chairs on the Titanic.
"The point of whether the upstream should or shouldn't be included is irrelevant – it's rearranging deck chairs on the deck of the Titanic at a point when we should be going to zero emissions."
Lincoln Riley’s benching of Miller Moss with three games left in a lost season is little more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
For me, what this all adds up to is that our current efforts to address homelessness here are a lot like moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.
"We are rearranging the deck chairs," he said.
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