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Boat Phrases

175 phrases and expressions related to "boat".

Phrases

  • A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
  • A few cards short of a full deck
  • A life on the ocean waves
  • A rising tide lifts all boats
  • Abandon ship
  • Ahoy there
  • All aboard
  • All aboard that's coming aboard
  • All aboard the Skylark (A line from Noah and Nelly)
  • All ashore that's going ashore
  • All at sea
  • All hands on deck
  • All hands to the pump
  • Anchors aweigh
  • Bail out
  • Barge right in
  • Batten down the hatches
  • Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
  • Boat person
  • Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
  • Britannia rules the waves
  • Burn your boats
  • Burst a blood vessel
  • Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
  • Clap him in irons
  • Clear the decks
  • Come about
  • Cut and run
  • Davy Jones' locker
  • Deal from the bottom of the deck
  • Deck of cards
  • Deck out (Adorn, typically with flags garlands etc.)
  • Deck the halls with boughs of holly
  • Deep sea data diving
  • Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
  • Don't give up the ship (Cutty Sark Whisky advertising slogan)
  • Don't make waves
  • Don't rock the boat
  • Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
  • Failure to launch
  • Fleet footed
  • Fleet of foot
  • Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
  • Flotsam and jetsam
  • Fresh off the boat
  • From sea to shining sea
  • Full fathom five
  • Full steam ahead
  • George Raft (Cockney rhyming slang for daft)
  • Go by the board
  • Go down with the ship
  • Gunboat diplomacy
  • Hands across the sea
  • Hard aport
  • Hard astarboard
  • Hello sailor
  • Hit the deck
  • Hunky dory (1971 album by David Bowie)
  • I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
  • If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
  • In full sail
  • In the offing
  • In the same boat
  • It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken (Perdue Farms advertising slogan)
  • Jolly jack tar
  • Jump ship
  • Junk Yard Dog (Nickname of Jerome Williams)
  • Junk bond
  • Junk food
  • Junk mail
  • Know the ropes
  • Launch one's lunch
  • Launch out at
  • Launch vehicle
  • Learn the ropes
  • Like rats leaving a sinking ship
  • Like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
  • Loose cannon
  • Love Me Tender (Elvis Presley song)
  • Make sail
  • Man overboard
  • Messing about in boats
  • Miss the boat
  • Mother ship
  • My ship has come in
  • Not dealing from a full deck
  • Not playing with a full deck
  • Ocean going
  • On board
  • On deck (A baseball expression meaning next in line)
  • On the fiddle
  • One liner
  • Out of the Ark
  • Paddle your own canoe
  • People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
  • Pipe down
  • Push the boat out
  • Put your oar in
  • Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Harrison Ford / Steven Speilberg movie)
  • Row, row, row your boat
  • Run a tight ship
  • Sail away
  • Sail close to the wind
  • Sail into
  • Sailing under false colours
  • Sailor's farewell
  • Sea Bass (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
  • Sea change
  • Sea level
  • Set sail
  • Shake a leg
  • Shape up or ship out
  • She sells sea shells on the sea shore
  • Ship of fools
  • Ship shape and Bristol fashion
  • Ship to shore
  • Shiver me timbers
  • Show a leg
  • Slipped my moorings (euphemism for adultery)
  • Sloop John B (Beach Boys song)
  • Son of a gun
  • Sound out
  • Spear carrier
  • Stacked deck
  • Steady as she goes
  • Sun, sea and sand
  • Swallows And Amazons (children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome)
  • Sweep the deck
  • Swing the lead
  • Take to the boats
  • Taken aback
  • Tender Is The Night (F Scott Fitzgerald novel)
  • Tender loving care
  • Tender mercies
  • That ship has sailed
  • The African Queen (Humphrey Bogart / Katharine Hepburn movie)
  • The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The Bride Of The Sea (Nickname of Venice Italy)
  • The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Nickname of Sweeney Todd)
  • The Dutch Destroyer (Nickname of Jaap Stam)
  • The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
  • The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
  • The Tender Trap (Frank Sinatra movie)
  • The Yankee Clipper (Nickname of Joe DiMaggio)
  • The bitter end
  • The boy stood on the burning deck
  • The deep blue sea
  • There's plenty more fish in the sea
  • This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
  • Three sheets to the wind
  • Tote that barge
  • Tug at your heartstrings
  • Turn turtle
  • Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
  • Walk the plank
  • We all live in a yellow submarine (Beatles song lyric)
  • We're gonna need a bigger boat (Jaws advertising tagline)
  • Whatever floats your boat
  • Women and children first
  • World cruise
  • Yellow Submarine (The Beatles song)
  • You know what sailors are
  • You're going to need a bigger boat (Jaws)

Related

  • Boat person
  • Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
  • Don't rock the boat
  • Fresh off the boat
  • In the same boat
  • Miss the boat
  • Push the boat out
  • Row, row, row your boat
  • The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
  • We're gonna need a bigger boat (Jaws advertising tagline)
  • Whatever floats your boat
  • You're going to need a bigger boat (Jaws)