Down
Sunk
Sunk adjective - Facing certain defeat, disaster, or death.
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- Then there is Numenor, an island civilization far in advance of any other part of Middle-Earth, whose people fall out of divine grace, worship evil, and provoke the gods so much that their island kingdom is eventually thrown down and sunk beneath the waves.
Source: Historical In-Joke -
Cromwell, an officer in the US Navy Submarine fleet, chose to go down with his sub (the USS Sculpin) when it was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in the Pacific.
Source: Going Down with the Ship - Worse,you don't get any benefits whatsoever once you reach Commissioner, meaning that once the clock runs down, you're sunk.
Source: Video Game / Police 911
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