كيف تنطق "dead in the water"
expression
DED in thuh WAW-ter
DED in thuh WAW-tuh
التعريف
If something is 'dead in the water,' it has stopped progressing and has no chance of success. It originally referred to a boat unable to move, but now is used for projects, plans, or ideas that aren’t going anywhere.
نسخ IPA
الإنجليزية الأمريكية
ˈdɛd/ /ˈɪn/, /ɪn/ /ˈðə/, /ðə/, /ði/ /ˈwɔtɝ
الإنجليزية البريطانية
dˈɛd/ /ˈɪn/ /ðə, ði/ /wˈɔːtɐ
نطق مبسط
أمريكي
DED in thuh WAW-ter
بريطاني
DED in thuh WAW-tuh
استمع في السياق
The project is dead in the water after losing funding.
Once the company stopped supporting it, the software was dead in the water.
His idea was dead in the water before it even started.
After that scandal, their campaign is pretty much dead in the water.