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Rule "a sinking (s)hip"

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Description: a sinking (s)hip
Message: Did you mean ship?
Category: Collocations (ID: COLLOCATIONS)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • The idiom 'like rats fleeing a sinking hip is used in reference to people abandoning an enterprise once it seems likely to fail.
    Correction suggestion: ship
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: SINKING_HIP [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-17 22:33:07 +0200)