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rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic
vs
toy with
rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic
toy with
verb
To handle something in a careless or frivolous manner.
To play, especially with or as with a toy.
How often have the words
rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic
and
toy with
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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