save the furniture
verbEtymology
An allusion to rapidly removing as much furniture as possible from a building threatened by fire, flood, or a similar disaster. Compare French sauver les meubles.
Definitions
To salvage something positive from a calamitous situation, especially one involving the…
To salvage something positive from a calamitous situation, especially one involving the reputation or fate of a political party.
- [S]winging progressives were keen to consolidate the diving Labor vote and save the furniture so that a reasonably-sized progressive opposition party could live to fight another day.
- A week after a headline in a Montreal newspaper suggested the NDP Leader’s numbers are so low it is time to “save the furniture,” he is still battling aggressively.
- In other words, the PLP could unite behind an experienced figure who would take them to a dignified defeat but would save the furniture.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA