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save the furniture

To salvage something positive from a calamitous situation, especially one involving the reputation or fate of a political party.

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  • An allusion to rapidly removing as much furniture as possible from a building threatened by fire, flood, or a similar disaster.
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[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.

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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sauver les meubles

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