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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