The company has been subjected to a 'flood tide' [='flood'] of criticism for its hiring policies.
He wasn't able to start the car because he had 'flooded' the engine.
a political movement that was 'in full flood' in the 1980s
(..) As for my soul, what can it do to that, being a thing immortal as itself? - It waves me forth again, I'll follow it - What if it tempt you towards the flood, my lord? Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff that overlaps his base into the sea'? And there assumes some other horrible form (..)2015 Hamlet