Phrase thesaurus
Nautical Phrases
56 phrases and expressions related to "nautical".
Phrases
- A life on the ocean waves
- Abandon ship
- Ahoy there
- All aboard
- All aboard that's coming aboard
- All at sea
- All hands on deck
- All hands to the pump
- Anchors aweigh
- Batten down the hatches
- Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
- Britannia rules the waves
- By and large
- Clap him in irons
- Clear the decks
- Come about
- Cut and run
- Davy Jones' locker
- Don't make waves
- Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
- Flotsam and jetsam
- Full fathom five
- Go by the board
- In the offing
- Jolly jack tar
- Know the ropes
- Land ahoy
- Learn the ropes
- Loose cannon
- Messing about in boats
- Nautical mile
- On the fiddle
- Pipe down
- Plain sailing
- Rear admiral (naval rank)
- Sailing under false colours
- Set sail
- Shake a leg
- Ship shape and Bristol fashion
- Shiver me timbers
- Shot across the bows
- Show a leg
- Smooth sailing
- Son of a gun
- Sound out
- Swing the lead
- Taken aback
- The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (Sherlock Holmes story)
- The bitter end
- The deep blue sea
- The few, the proud, the Marines (United States Marine Corps advertising slogan)
- Three sheets to the wind
- Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
- Walk the plank
- Women and children first
- You know what sailors are