Sail Phrases

Phrases

• A life on the ocean waves
• A move in the right direction
• 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
• As white as a sheet
• Bar fly
• Batten down the hatches
• Because you were born to fly (TAM Brazilian Airlines advertising slogan)
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Biggest daily sale on Earth (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Blank canvas
• Boat person
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)

• Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
• Bold move
• Bon voyage
• Booze cruise
• Born On The Fourth Of July (Tom Cruise movie)
• Britannia rules the waves
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• Career limiting move
• Cast anchor
• Cast off
• Cheat sheet
• Clap him in irons
• Clean sheet
• Clear the decks
• Cloth ears
• Come Fly With Me (Frank Sinatra song)
• Come about
• Cruise control
• Cut and run

• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Davy Jones' locker
• Did the earth move for you
• Don't make waves
• Don't rock the boat
• Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
• Fair market value (a reasonable price for an article for sale)
• Faith will move mountains
• Fire Sale
• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
• Flotsam and jetsam
• Fly Me To The Moon (Frank Sinatra song)
• Fly a kite
• Fly by night
• Fly by the seat of your pants
• Fly by wire
• Fly drive
• Fly in the face of the evidence

• Fly in the ointment
• Fly now. Shovel later (Eastern Airlines advertising slogan)
• Fly off the handle
• Fly off the shelves
• Fly on the wall
• Fly the American way (American Airlines advertising slogan)
• Fly the coop
• Fly the flag (British Airways advertising slogan)
• Fly the friendly skies (United Airlines advertising slogan)
• Fly the nest
• Fresh off the boat
• Full fathom five
• Get a move on
• Get out there (Royal Caribbean cruise lines advertising slogan)
• Go by the board
• Go fly a kite
• Hello sailor
• I Like To Move It (Reel 2 Reel song)
• I'm Margie. Fly me (National Airlines advertising slogan)

• If God had meant us to fly he would have given us wings
• If man were meant to fly, God would have lowered the fares (American Coach Lines advertising slogan)
• In full sail
• In the offing
• In the same boat
• It's time to fly (United Airlines advertising slogan)
• Jolly jack tar
• Keep a clean sheet
• Know the ropes
• Land ahoy
• Learn the ropes
• Let fly
• Like a blue arsed fly
• Loose cannon
• Maiden voyage
• Make a move on
• Make a sale
• Make sail
• Make the feathers fly

• Make your move
• Man of the cloth
• Miss the boat
• Mission Impossible (Tom Cruise movie and television series title)
• Move It On Over (Hank Williams song)
• Move On Up a Little Higher (Mahalia Jackson song)
• Move heaven and earth
• Move in the best circles
• Move over
• Move right along
• Move with the times
• Not for sale
• On the fiddle
• On the fly
• On the move
• Pigs might fly
• Pipe down
• Plain sailing
• Point of sale

• Push the boat out
• Raise the wind
• Red Sails In The Sunset (Al Bowlly song)
• Row, row, row your boat
• Sail away
• Sail close to the wind
• Sail into
• Sailing under false colours
• Sailor's farewell
• Sale of the century
• Set sail
• Shake a leg
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Shiver me timbers
• Show a leg
• Singapore Girl, you're a great way to fly (Singapore Airlines advertising slogan)
• Singing from the same hymn sheet
• Smooth move
• Smooth sailing

• Son of a gun
• Sound out
• Spanish Fly
• Straighten up and fly right
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Swing the lead
• Take the wind out of my sails
• Taken aback
• That ship has sailed
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Color Of Money (Paul Newman / Tom Cruise movie)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The bitter end
• The cut of your jib
• The deep blue sea
• The fur began to fly
• The only way to fly (Western Airlines advertising slogan)
• Three sheets to the wind
• Twenty thousand leagues under the sea

• Waiter, there's a fly in my soup
• Walk the plank
• Watch the sparks fly
• We love to fly and it shows (Delta AirLines advertising slogan)
• We really move our tail for you (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• We're gonna need a bigger boat (Jaws advertising tagline)
• Whatever floats your boat
• Women and children first
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• World cruise
• You and I were meant to fly (Air Canada advertising slogan)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You know what sailors are
• You'll love the way we fly (Delta Airlines advertising slogan)
• You're going to need a bigger boat (Jaws)