Tanker Phrases

Phrases

• Abandon ship
• Boat person
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Burn the midnight oil
• By the lorry load
• Don't give up the ship (Cutty Sark Whisky advertising slogan)
• Don't rock the boat
• Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
• Fresh off the boat
• Go down with the ship
• In the same boat
• It fell off the back of a lorry
• Jump ship
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Liquid engineering (Castrol Motor Oil advertising slogan)
• Miss the boat
• Mother ship
• My ship has come in
• No oil painting
• Oil Can (Nickname of Dennis Boyd)
• Oil and water don't mix
• Oil the wheels
• Pour oil on troubled waters
• Push the boat out
• Red lorry yellow lorry
• Row, row, row your boat
• 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)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• We're gonna need a bigger boat (Jaws advertising tagline)
• Whatever floats your boat
• You're going to need a bigger boat (Jaws)