Sailor Phrases

Phrases

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• A life on the ocean waves
• Abandon ship
• Accelerate your life (US Navy advertising slogan)
• Ahoy there
• All aboard
• All aboard that's coming aboard
• All at sea
• All hands on deck
• All hands to the pump
• Anchors aweigh
• Aye aye sir
• Batten down the hatches
• Belay there
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Boat person
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Boston Tar Baby (Nickname of boxer Sam Langford)
• Britannia rules the waves
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Clap him in irons
• Clear the decks
• Come about
• Cut and run
• Davy Jones' locker
• 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
• Flotsam and jetsam
• Fresh off the boat
• From sea to shining sea
• Full fathom five
• Full of piss and vinegar
• Go by the board
• Go down with the ship
• Go for a soldier (Enlist in the army)
• Hands across the sea
• Hello sailor
• 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
• Jolly jack tar
• Jump ship
• Kiss me Hardy (Admiral Nelson quotation)
• Know the ropes
• Learn the ropes
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Loose cannon
• Make sail
• Messing about in boats
• Miss the boat
• Mother ship
• Mr. Midshipman Easy (Frederick Marryat book)
• My ship has come in
• Navy blue
• Old salt
• On the fiddle
• Pipe down
• Play the old soldier
• Push the boat out
• Rear admiral (naval rank)
• Row, row, row your boat
• Rum do
• 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
• Senior Service satisfy (Senior Service cigarettes advertising slogan)
• 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
• Soldier of fortune
• Soldier on
• Son of a gun
• Sound out
• Splice the mainbrace
• Sun, sea and sand
• Swing the lead
• Taken aback
• That ship has sailed
• The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Bride Of The Sea (Nickname of Venice Italy)
• The Flying Fisherman (Nickname of Roscoe Vernon Gaddis)
• 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 bitter end
• The deep blue sea
• The few, the proud, the Marines (United States Marine Corps advertising slogan)
• The sun is over the yardarm
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Three sheets to the wind
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre book)
• Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
• Walk the plank
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• We're gonna need a bigger boat (Jaws advertising tagline)
• Whatever floats your boat
• Women and children first
• Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
• Yo ho ho me hearties
• You know what sailors are
• You're going to need a bigger boat (Jaws)