Not only are we knee deep in canaries, the canaries have been falling off their perches for thirty odd years at least now.
Michael Carley
Always a bit amused when I see a "this is the canary in the coal mine" take about universities or the humanities. My dude, we're knee deep in canary carcasses. Glad've cottoned on, but the eery silence of ceased chirping has long since engulfed us.