What exactly are you asking? Why would you want to rewrite it?
Are you asking what the saying means?
The cast of Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship - 2012 includes: Vika Kirchenbauer
Rats desert a sinking ship.
I think "rats" is likely to mean "coward" who run away when they have a problem. If some one, or some people run when difficulties arise, or when things get bad, they are compared to rats deserting a sinking ship. The rats only care for their own safety, and will not stay to help prevent the ship from sinking or to help others
rats "Rats deserting a sinking ship" is a cliche.
Rats desert a sinking ship
same reason humans do
definetely rats can swim how else could they leave a sinking ship
It was observed early in the history of man's maritime achievements that rats would sense the sinking of a ship before anyone else would realize it and make for safety and land. They would appear out of the bilges and run across the decks in a thundering herd as the ship settled. The metaphor indicates that people are bailing on the situation like rats do when the ship sinks.
To leave something or someone when things get bad, they do not stick around to help.
5miles
Songs for a Sinking Ship was created in 2010.
This Sinking Ship was created on 2007-02-20.