Ship Phrases

Phrases

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• A few cards short of a full deck
• 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
• Anchor man
• Anchors aweigh
• Batten down the hatches
• Belay there
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Boat person
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Booze cruise
• Britannia rules the waves
• Burst a blood vessel
• Cast anchor
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Clap him in irons
• Clear the decks
• Come about
• Cut and run
• Davy Jones' locker
• Deal from the bottom of the deck
• Deck of cards
• Deck out (Adorn, typically with flags garlands etc.)
• Deck the halls with boughs of holly
• 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
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Extend the hand of friendship
• Failure to launch
• Fleet footed
• Fleet of foot
• Flotsam and jetsam
• Fresh off the boat
• From chips to ships (Hyundai advertising slogan)
• From sea to shining sea
• From stem to stern
• Full fathom five
• George Raft (Cockney rhyming slang for daft)
• Getting there is half the fun (Cunard Line advertising slogan)
• Go by the board
• Go down with the ship
• Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong (Pan-American Coffee Bureau advertising slogan)
• Group hug (a hug shared as an expression of friendship or solidarity)
• Hands across the sea
• Hard aport
• Hard astarboard
• Hatch, match and dispatch
• Hello sailor
• Hit the deck
• 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
• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• Jolly jack tar
• Jump ship
• Junk Yard Dog (Nickname of Jerome Williams)
• Junk bond
• Junk food
• Junk mail
• Keep an even keel
• Know the ropes
• Launch one's lunch
• Launch out at
• Launch vehicle

• Learn the ropes
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
• Loose cannon
• Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
• Maiden voyage
• Miss the boat
• Mother ship
• Mr. Midshipman Easy
• Mutiny on the Bounty (Marlon Brando movie)
• My ship has come in
• Navy blue
• Not dealing from a full deck
• Not playing with a full deck
• Ocean going
• On an even keel
• On board
• On deck (A baseball expression meaning next in line)
• On the fiddle
• One liner
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Pipe down
• Push the boat out
• Raise the wind
• Red Sails In The Sunset (Al Bowlly song)
• Row, row, row your boat
• Run a tight ship
• Sailing under false colours
• Sailor's farewell
• Save our souls
• Sea Bass (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• Sea change
• Sea level
• 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
• Ships of the desert
• Ships that pass in the night
• Shiver me timbers
• Shot across the bows
• Show a leg
• Sloop John B (Beach Boys song)
• Son of a gun
• Sound out
• Stacked deck
• Sun, sea and sand
• Sweep the deck
• Swing the lead
• Taken aback
• That ship has sailed
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Bride Of The Sea (Nickname of Venice Italy)
• The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Nickname of Sweeney Todd)
• 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 boy stood on the burning deck
• The deep blue sea
• The face that launched a thousand ships
• The start of a beautiful friendship
• 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
• Transport of delight
• Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
• Walk the plank
• We're gonna need a bigger boat (Jaws advertising tagline)
• Weigh anchor
• Whatever floats your boat
• Women and children first
• You know what sailors are
• You're going to need a bigger boat (Jaws)

Related

• Abandon ship
• Don't give up the ship (Cutty Sark Whisky advertising slogan)
• Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
• Go down with the ship
• Jump ship
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Mother ship
• My ship has come in
• Run a tight ship
• Shape up or ship out
• Ship of fools
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Ship to shore
• That ship has sailed
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)