Ferry Phrases

Phrases

• Abandon ship
• Airy fairy
• Boat person
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• 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
• Fairytale ending (a happy simplistic ending to a story similar to those found in fairy tales)
• Fresh off the boat
• Go down with the ship
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• In the same boat
• Jump ship
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Miss the boat
• Mother ship
• My ship has come in
• Nobody loves a fairy when she's forty
• Push the boat out
• Row, row, row your boat
• Run a tight ship
• San fairy Ann
• Shape up or ship out
• Ship of fools
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Ship to shore
• Shoot a fairy
• 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)