dead in the water

dead in the water (of a ship) unable to move （船只）抛锚的。 ■ figurative unable to function effectively 〈喻〉停滞的, 瘫痪的, 不起作用的： the economy is dead in the water. 经济停滞不前。 ˌdead in the ˈwatera person or plan that isdead in the waterhas failed and has little hope of succeeding in the future（人或计划）失败，无成功希望His leadership campaign is dead in the water.他参加领导层竞选无望成功。

• art or part in
• Assens
• schmaltz herring
• comedic
• idiotising
• Fortuna
• penial
• put back
• dressing shed
• tala
• A display
• sea horses
• emulate
• corepiece
• monkish
• has
• laze
• subtlest
• binnings
• dyarchies
• snowmaking
• no time to swap knives
• contra-account
• blowbacks
• Chicopee
• cash flow
• psychodynamic
• sidecars
• radar climatology
• molinate
• Anglicising
• dardanelless
• Cayugas
• Thanetian
• deipnosophistic
• crossed grid
• persifleur
• CD Interactive
• advect
• dolinger
• q.d.
• iliac artery
• witches' brew
• closefistedness
• clavate
• clistocarp
• estrangest
• Avogadro constant
• gigantesque
• velarium
• clogging
• snooper
• Haystack antenna
• force-feeds
• eleventh hours
• danthonia
• sealing
• roarers
• maumets
• init.
• stonecrop family
• deodar cedars
• hartleys
• Shih Tzu
• case laws
• make a rod for your own back
• transmission function
• divulgence
• stop/halt/freeze in your tracks
• derbesia
• fly agaric
• daylight savings
• foldbelt
• internalise
• turn sb↔off
• throve
• stop a blow with one's head
• isthmectomy
• familial hypercholesterolemia
• interfoliaceous
• greasy
• tonsillar
• from clew to earing
• drag in by head and shoulders
• V coefficient
• desmin
• Magnedex
• sublimities
• negotiator
• phthiriasis
• fizer
• revolutionary
• hws
• THF
• tangier
• tribesman
• barefaced
• control agent
• early in the day
• fickle-minded