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Originally Posted by Chris
I’m pretty sure Seph wasn’t objecting to a literal use of ‘rat’. More likely the insinuation that Brady is unprincipled, jumping before he’s pushed, only interested in saving his own skin, etc etc etc. Any or all of which might be true or might not.
I suspect Seph has actually challenged you to back up that assertion in some way. What you’ve actually done is accuse him of wilfully misunderstanding you, and then responded by wilfully misunderstanding him. Which seems a bit pointless really.
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You are also misinterpreting the phrase:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dic...a-sinking-ship
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used to refer to people leaving a place, organization, activity, etc. very quickly and in large numbers, because it is failing in some way
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Brady is not a "rat" per se, rather he is leaving the failed Tory Party before he is possibly voted out at the next GE.