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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
A rising tide lifts all
boats
Abandon
ship
Ahoy there
All aboard
All aboard that's coming aboard
All aboard the Skylark ( A line from Noah and Nelly )
All ashore that's going ashore
All at
sea
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All hands on
deck
All hands to the pump
Anchors aweigh
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Bail out
Barge
right in
Batten down the hatches
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Between the Devil and the deep blue
sea
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Boat person
Boat race ( Cockney rhyming slang for face )
Britannia rules the waves
Burn your
boats
Burst a blood
vessel
Castles made of sand fall into the
sea
eventually
Clap him in irons
Clear the decks
Come about
Cut and run
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Davy Jones' locker
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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
Failure to
launch
Fleet
footed
Fleet
of foot
Float
like a butterfly, sting like a bee
Flotsam and jetsam
Fresh off the boat
From
sea
to shining
sea
Full fathom five
Full steam ahead
George
Raft
( Cockney rhyming slang for daft )
Go by the board
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Go down with the
ship
Gunboat diplomacy
Hands across the
sea
Hard aport
Hard astarboard
Hello
sailor
Hit the
deck
Hunky
dory
( 1971 album by David Bowie )
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I wouldn't touch it with a
barge
pole
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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 takes a tough man to make a
tender
chicken ( Perdue Farms advertising slogan )
Jolly jack tar
Jump
ship
Junk
Yard Dog ( Nickname of Jerome Williams )
Junk
bond
Junk
food
Junk
mail
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
Love Me
Tender
( Elvis Presley song )
Make
sail
Man overboard
Messing about in
boats
Miss the boat
Mother
ship
My
ship
has come in
Not dealing from a full
deck
Not playing with a full
deck
Ocean going
On board
On
deck
( A baseball expression meaning next in line )
On the fiddle
One
liner
Out of the
Ark
Paddle your own
canoe
People
carrier
( a car with several passenger seats )
Pipe down
Push the boat out
Put your
oar
in
Raiders Of The Lost
Ark
( Harrison Ford / Steven Speilberg movie )
Row, row, row your boat
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
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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
Shiver me timbers
Show a leg
Slipped my moorings ( euphemism for adultery )
Sloop
John B ( Beach Boys song )
Son of a gun
Sound out
Spear
carrier
Stacked
deck
Steady as she goes
Sun,
sea
and sand
Swallows And Amazons ( children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome )
Sweep the
deck
Swing the lead
Take to the
boats
Taken aback
Tender
Is The Night ( F Scott Fitzgerald novel )
Tender
loving care
Tender
mercies
That
ship
has sailed
The African Queen ( Humphrey Bogart / Katharine Hepburn movie )
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 Dutch
Destroyer
( Nickname of Jaap Stam )
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
Tender
Trap ( Frank Sinatra movie )
The Yankee
Clipper
( Nickname of Joe DiMaggio )
The bitter end
The boy stood on the burning
deck
The deep blue
sea
There's plenty more fish in the
sea
This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
Three sheets to the wind
Tote that
barge
Tug
at your heartstrings
Turn turtle
Twenty thousand leagues under the
sea
Walk the plank
We all live in a yellow
submarine
( Beatles song lyric )
We're gonna need a bigger boat ( Jaws advertising tagline )
Whatever floats your boat
Women and children first
World cruise
Yellow
Submarine
( The Beatles song )
You know what sailors are
You're going to need a bigger boat ( Jaws )