Boat Phrases

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)