save the furniture

Etymology
An allusion to rapidly removing as much furniture as possible from a building threatened by fire, flood, or a similar disaster. Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

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

Translations

 * Dutch: de meubels redden
 * Finnish: pelastaa edes jotain (rippeistä)
 * French:
 * Polish: ocalać po czymś złym, ocalić po czymś złym