Sentences with phrase «idea is dead in the water»

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At a time when yachting fashion suggests that to be fast on the water and comfortable in your cabin you must own a wide - beamed center - boarder like Finisterre (SI, June 18, 1956), a New York engineer named Fred Hibberd is sailing dead against the current with some solid and original ideas of his own.

There had been some reports claiming the Spaniard was set to move to the Far East temporarily before moving back to La Liga, but the idea looks to be dead in the water — the Chinese Super League mid-season transfer window is now closed.

He said the idea was a «noble concept,» but then declared it all but dead in the water, a fanciful proposal somewhere on the spectrum between a hassle - free subway ride and world peace.

«If people don't enter the teaching profession with the idea that they're going to have to learn over time how to do the work,» Elmore says, «we're dead in the water.»

So while it may be a great idea «in theory», practically, it's dead in the water.

The idea isn't dead in the water.