deck chair

noun

1. a folding chair, usually with arms and a full-length leg rest, commonly used for lounging on the decks of passenger ships.

Word History and Origins

Origin of deck chair¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

She’s not here to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic; she’s here to convey — in vigorous, crystal-clear sentences — what we’re losing, and why.

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But she sounded skeptical of the county’s proposal, comparing it to the movement of deck chairs on the Titanic.

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"The point of whether the upstream should or shouldn't be included is irrelevant – it's rearranging deck chairs on the deck of the Titanic at a point when we should be going to zero emissions."

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Lincoln Riley’s benching of Miller Moss with three games left in a lost season is little more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

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For me, what this all adds up to is that our current efforts to address homelessness here are a lot like moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.

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