[Ads-l] "that ship has sailed"

[Rich Lowenthal]

2000 is pretty late for "that ship has sailed."

>From Lawrence J. White, "The S&L Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank 
and Thrift Regulation" (1991), p. 250, note 41:

"Separate regulatory agencies would give more room for creativity and 
independent development of new approaches to regulatory problems; see 
Benston (1984) and Fischel, Rosenfeld, and Stillman (1987). The same 
argument could be made for maintaining a separate insurance fund for 
thrifts; alas, that ship has sailed and is unlikely to return."

And the New York Times, July 18, 1999:

"Two years after Art Modell moved his team from Cleveland to Baltimore, 
one of the most controversial acts in the history of the National 
Football League, he was asked if he felt his chances of being elected to 
the Hall of Fame had evaporated. ''I think that ship has sailed,'' he 
said."


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>From "Martin Schneider" 
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Date 7/27/2026 11:39:17 PM
Subject "that ship has sailed"

>Watching For All Mankind, the Apple TV series about, well, the race to the
>moon, and a character says "That ship has sailed." The year is 1970.
>
>Sounded out of time to me, but I was shocked by how much. Google NGR says
>2000 and after only! What?
>
>Green's doesn't have anything on it. What do you suppose the inciting
>incident was on that one?
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