Others on board either went down with the ship or were swept away and never seen again.

And, like all of those who believe in a cause, he is willing to go down with the ship rather than compromise.

He'd rather go down with the ship than admit that I'm right and he's wrong.

It's possible as captain, if something went wrong, that you might not go down with the ship.

"What if something goes wrong and you don't go down with the ship?"

We all had plenty of time to find new jobs, but it was not much fun to go down with the ship.

In the old days, the theory was that the captain go down with the ship.

It was his way to go down with the ship of broken promises.

No one said you had to go down with the ship.

"No one was offering the Governor any other political option than to go down with the ship."