Oar Phrases

Phrases

• A bull and cow (Cockney rhyming slang for row or argument)
• As camp as a row of tents
• Boat person
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Both oars in the water
• Desolation Row (Bob Dylan song)
• Don't rock the boat
• Fresh off the boat
• Get your ducks in a row
• Hard row to hoe
• He doesn't have both oars in the water
• In the same boat
• Miss the boat
• Murderers' Row (A baseball expression denoting a group of talented individuals or valuable assets)
• On death row
• On skid row
• Oxford Blue
• Oxford scholar (Cockney rhyming slang for dollar)
• Push the boat out
• Put your oar in
• Rest on your oars
• Row up Salt River
• Row, row, row your boat
• Shock and awe
• The City of Dreaming Spires (Nickname of the city of Oxford)
• The Moscow on the Charles (Nickname of Cambridge Massachusetts)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The People's Republic Of Cambridge (Nickname of Cambridge Massachusetts)
• The dreaming spires (an idealised images of the colleges of Oxford)
• Tough row to hoe
• We're gonna need a bigger boat (Jaws advertising tagline)
• Whatever floats your boat
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
• You're going to need a bigger boat (Jaws)