noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coach/bus/boat trip
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They took a boat trip to see the seals.
a horse/boat/bike etc race
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It’s legal to gamble on horse races.
a rescue helicopter/boat/ship
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A rescue helicopter is on its way.
boat hook
boat people
boat train
canal boat
gravy boat
narrow boat
packet boat
patrol boat/car (= used by the army or police )
pleasure boat
rowing boat
sailing boat
sauce boat
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fishing
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Down below were lots of fishing boats and I decided to wait until they returned to the harbour.
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Bathing huts, a steam engine, cavalry on manoeuvre and beached fishing boats: it must have been lovely.
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Sexennarian A long fishing boat propelled by six oars.
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Displays include Eyemouth tapestry, history of Berwickshire fanning and fishing , and the wheelhouse of a modern fishing boat .
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Then they spotted a fishing boat , near the northernmost reef.
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Fred Normandale, a leading skipper, told the harbour committee yesterday that scallops were now attracting fishing boats from other areas.
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At busy times, 100 or more fishing boats often work in the area.
little
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Quickly, I put my little boat in the water and sailed out to it.
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Ram Rahim was confident beneath me, a snug little boat on a big sea.
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That sets the little boats rocking like crazy, like there's a sudden storm or summat.
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Because a little boat has been found sunken with some kind of stains on it that may be blood.
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Eventually they grow tired of this and decide to take the little wooden rowing boat out on to the lake.
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My little boat sailed bravely against the wind, straight into the rocks.
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It's a lovely little boat to drive.
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He was saying that he would sail the Channel in his little boat .
narrow
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Don't get me wrong - I love narrow boat life.
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Above: The elaborately decorated cabin of a narrow boat .
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She hadn't known, when she agreed to Caro's suggestion, that her friend lived on a narrow boat .
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Each caisson weighed 240 tons with water in it, and could carry one barge or two narrow boats .
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Even so, Robbie breathed more easily once she had put the length of the narrow boat between them.
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The wind howled dolefully, making the narrow boat sway and rock at her moorings.
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Fen's words about narrow boat life not being all glamour returned to mock her.
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The thought of a day, let alone months, spent on board a narrow boat would fill her with horror.
rowing
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They went to Chester and wandered round the medieval Rows, then took a rowing boat on the River Dee.
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The Cam always looks so peaceful, especially so on a winter's day with no punts or rowing boats in sight.
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You may also fish, or hire windsurfing boards and rowing boats on this lake.
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At the water's edge a rowing boat was beached.
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A scruffy card showed a rowing boat floating towards a bank.
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It was a bit like the rowing boat trying to make headway against the flow of the river near the weir.
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Not even a rowing boat on the river.
sailing
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But a sleek sailing boat that spends all its time in harbour is no use to anyone.
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You see sailing boats gliding along, their huge sails gracefully bending to the wind.
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She liked the video vessel very much but she adores her real sailing boat .
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They were little sailing boats , and they went all round, down to Ireland and Cornwall at different times.
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You at the helm of the small, wooden sailing boat with the green line around it.
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They were in a sailing boat , as far out as the trawler, both of them older, eighteen or nineteen.
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Gordon Hamilton will have time for sailing boats only in his bath.
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He studied the sailing boat for a while, smiling to himself.
small
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She rounded a corner quickly; in a tiny estuary the small boats of the eel pickers were congregated.
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Three hours later, to our puzzlement, a small fishing boat scurried up in our wake, firing red distress rockets.
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The town itself has grown up around the river Ribe which has afforded it docking facilities for small boats .
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Since Thursday, he said, Coast Guard cutters and smaller boats have criss-crossed 17, 500 square miles.
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There were rumours the small boat had been hit by a much larger vessel.
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All around us small fishing boats were wheeling and stopping as they set and retrieved nets.
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A few small boats gently disturbed the ripples where the water's edge met the beach.
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But their salaries bring up the smaller boats .
■ NOUN
canal
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For most purposes the floor of a canal boat may be considered stable, like that of a domestic interior.
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Stages and canal boats had been crowded with visitors descending on the twin communities.
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When canal boats are taken out of the water for repairs they are winched sideways up a slipway.
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Born on a canal boat , she had a brief childhood before learning to lead the mules that pull the boat.
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The little sketch of Crinan Canal shows the halting-place where passengers wait to re-embark on board the canal boat .
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Early steam engines were not very suitable for powering canal boats because of their large size.
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Transport includes canal boats from Village to Olympic centre.
patrol
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Their lead over the patrol boat was down to two hundred yards.
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But lifeguards on a patrol boat sent to the area could not locate the whale.
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Despite the protection of the reef, there was sufficient sea running to make the patrol boat roll through sixty degrees.
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He didn't bother to look back to see whether the shots were coming from the patrol boat or from the tender.
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Soon after, lifeguards gave up their search and ordered the crew to moor their patrol boat .
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Trent looked back straight into the bows of the patrol boat .
people
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A holding camp designed for 480 boat people has been brimming with more than 1,000.
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He said that the deportations could jeopardise international negotiations aimed at finding a long-term solution to the boat people problem.
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No reprieve for the boat people .
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The Government would seek international co-operation on checking the inflow of boat people at January's Geneva conference meeting.
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A further 40,000 boat people still waiting to be screened will almost certainly be ruled illegal as well.
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Quiet reaction in camps masks desperation of boat people .
pleasure
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It begins with scenes of Frank Spencer in his latest, shortlived job as the skipper of a pleasure boat .
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The only casualties I hear of are a couple of pleasure boats which dragged their moorings and were damaged on the shore.
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Music and voices came gusting from moored pleasure boats across the plum-red water.
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He saved twelve lives when a pleasure boat capsized in heavy surf at Corona del Mar in California in June 1925.
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These days, the Canal Basin bustles not with goods but with pleasure boats .
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Local environmentalists had speculated whether heavy pleasure boat and fishing craft use of the lake might have resulted in lead pollution.
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Local Activities: Walks, surfing, golf, diving, fishing, bird-watching, pleasure boat trips, sandy beaches.
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The contrast with today couldn't have been greater-we even took a pleasure boat over the same stretch of water.
trip
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And red-breasted merganser headed purposefully out to sea - as our four-hour boat trip came to an end.
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The equity department was planning a boat trip to become further acquainted with the trainees on its short list.
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Take a boat trip upstream along the Swan River through vineyards, stopping off to visit wineries.
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A two-hour boat trip will take you to Lundy Island, once famous for its pirates and now for its puffins.
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A festival, a boat trip , climbing to the top of a hill.
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Glass-bottom boat trips are also available.
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I didn't really wake up until we made the short boat trip to Ellis Island.
■ VERB
build
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So technology that builds the boats leads directly to biological adaptation and evolution.
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A child may begin by building a block boat and constructing the story behind that boat.
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The transport committee yesterday approved plans to build another boat .
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Later on, in my teens, I built model airplanes and boats .
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Above: Harland &038; Wolff's yard on the River Thames built many boats at a time.
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Quick quiz A man stranded on a desert island builds a rowing boat and sets out for the nearest land.
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He was going to build boats , like his grandfather.
fish
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Chequers fishing well off the boats and around the lone tree.
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Her home consists of two battered green fishing boats tied together a few feet off a stretch of garbage-strewn Nile shoreline.
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There are shops of most trades, restaurants, pubs, cafes, fishing and boat trips and a beach.
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Three hours later, to our puzzlement, a small fishing boat scurried up in our wake, firing red distress rockets.
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Pleasure boats and fishing boats had once been stored in the vast rooms below the earth.
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That afternoon we saw that two of the fishing boats were preparing to leave port.
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If Itado was unsafe for powerful modern fishing boats then it was certainly not the place for Hsu Fu to stay.
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A spectacular, widely observed meteorite fall in Newfoundland on October 19, 1936, set a fishing boat afire.
miss
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True to form, he missed the boat .
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And feminism has missed the boat , Roiphe says, by focusing on the wrong things.
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Now Celtic may have missed the boat !
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But Carlsbad itself is missing the boat in another respect.
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Yet the sense of having missed a once-on-a-lifetime boat remains acute.
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Sorry, I missed the boat .
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Frankly, he's missed the boat with Rosa.
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On certain policy issues, politicians also miss the boat .
push
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Leaving Joe and his son to return to Fancy, we pushed the boat out to sea and ploughed down to Richmond.
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We would push out the boat , hoist the sail and visit the lobster pots and conger lines.
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Verily, these people are set upon pushing the noise boat out over the horizon until it arrives ... somewhere.
rock
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Injuries to Strachan and Sterland rocked the boat last year.
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To refrain from rocking the boat .
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Custom, practice and a tacit agreement not to rock the boat did the rest.
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The local party leaders, anxious to rock no ideological boats in the unstable times, left them alone.
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Who the hell would want to rock the boat on a deal like that!
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Of course you rock the boat !
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If she didn't like it then it was her fault for rocking the boat .
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Sixty percent of professors are moral cowards unwilling to rock the boat and therefore willing to tolerate the others.
row
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Watersports: On the Fuschlsee you can hire electrically-powered boats , rowing boats, pedaloes, and also sail or windsurf.
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Grace quickly rowed the boat out to sea again.
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A few minutes later I heard the splash of oars, and a rowing boat came into view manned by three crewmen.
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Eventually they grow tired of this and decide to take the little wooden rowing boat out on to the lake.
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Yesterday he was rowing with the boat race squad on this stretch of Thames at Wallingford when he complained he felt unwell.
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Lachian rows the boat to the middle of the loch and then he jumps in the water and starts pretending to drown.
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He and I used to row our boats up and down the river together.
sail
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It couldn't be that difficult to sail a boat .
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However, I saw land some hours later, and I managed to sail the boat to it.
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We would learn about boats and sailing , about boat charters and the travel business.
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How most people prefer to be actively involved in sailing the boat rather than just sitting and admiring the view.
take
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They went to Chester and wandered round the medieval Rows, then took a rowing boat on the River Dee.
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One day this son of a landowner was about to take his boat out for a leisurely day of fishing.
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Firemen took to boats to reach those trapped in their homes as water rose up to door-top level.
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He donned rubber coat and boots and took to his boat .
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They had taken their boat into the edge of the forest, up the river that you saw.
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Were they taking over my boat ?
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They took larger boats , had fewer engineering problems and provided good links to the northern seaports.
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In the summer, children swam, took boat rides, and sometimes even looked for fish in the river.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be in the same boat
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And Fakhru was in the same boat: calm because he was prepared for the inevitable disaster.
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Everyone is in the same boat today.
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If marriage is a boat, then many of us are in the same boat!
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So we are in the same boat with our ancestors!
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We should all be in the same boat.
burn your bridges/boats
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And, now she'd burnt her boats so very finally, he would want it back.
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He was not one for burning his boats.
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She had indeed burnt her boats.
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She was acutely aware that she had burnt her boats.
miss the boat
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Buy your shares in the company now or you'll miss the boat.
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Customers were worried about missing the boat by not buying any stocks.
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He didn't get his application in early enough so he missed the boat.
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And feminism has missed the boat, Roiphe says, by focusing on the wrong things.
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And there was this old comic called Jack Daw, who'd missed the boat on account of booze.
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But Carlsbad itself is missing the boat in another respect.
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Frankly, he's missed the boat with Rosa.
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Now Celtic may have missed the boat!
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On certain policy issues, politicians also miss the boat.
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Sorry, I missed the boat.
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True to form, he missed the boat.
push the boat out
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Leaving Joe and his son to return to Fancy, we pushed the boat out to sea and ploughed down to Richmond.
rock the boat
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As long as you don't rock the boat, nobody cares what you do.
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Judge Thurgood Marshall never hesitated to rock the boat, from the beginning of his long legal career.
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We have a pretty good life here. Why rock the boat?
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Custom, practice and a tacit agreement not to rock the boat did the rest.
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If she didn't like it then it was her fault for rocking the boat.
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Injuries to Strachan and Sterland rocked the boat last year.
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Of course you rock the boat!
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Sixty percent of professors are moral cowards unwilling to rock the boat and therefore willing to tolerate the others.
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To refrain from rocking the boat.
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Waves from a passing freighter rocked the boat, Swensson says, throwing him to the deck.
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Who the hell would want to rock the boat on a deal like that!
whatever floats your boat
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a motor boat
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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My first day at Tropicana was spent in a boat , on the beach, and in the bar.
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Still, it was hard to keep her mind on the boat .
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The boat swung around to its new heading.
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There were no boats on the lake, no swimmers or fishermen.