dead in the water

If you can't rely on your API to properly preserve data while it passes through the memory of your VM, you're essentially dead in the water.

The LF-A had previously been thought to be dead in the water, however, later stories of its resurrection surfaced.

If the economy remains dead in the water, the ratio of public debt to the total economy balloons.

The factory had to recall many of its cars because of a defective brake system. Its normal production was dead in the water.

what ? trial marriage ? i thought you just said marriage was dead in the water.

The crippled ship was dead in the water. With no leadership, the project was dead in the water.

After being dead in the water for seven days, all on board were terrified they would die.

The Swiss Bank's plan to launder money skimmed from casinos was dead in the water.

Most civilians believed the movement was dead in the water.

The market for securitised mortgages is dead in the water.

Apple's iPhone 'dead in the water'? Really?

And after that just leaves you dead in the water.

Remember an inch of doubt and you're dead in the water.

That proposal is dead in the water.

Many geese fall dead in the water.

His business is dead in the water.

Paul French, Shanghai-based director of the market research company AccessAsia, called the development "dead in the water. "

Morse, 42 years old, possibly at the helm for the critical holiday period, 'Yahoo is going to be basically dead in the water.

The whole commodity complex will be left dead in the water for the next ten years, the report said.

The idea that certain kinds of work are "feminine" or "masculine" is dead in the water.

dead in the water Unable to function or move:

the other vessel is dead in the water

Dead in the Water episode