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Rule "a sinking (s)hip"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: a sinking (s)hip
Message: Did you mean <suggestion>ship</suggestion>?
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
ID: SINKING_HIP [1]
Version: 6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-11-02 22:33:08 +0100)