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A list of phrases related to the word "nautical"...
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A life on the ocean waves
Abandon ship
Ahoy
there
All aboard
All aboard that's coming aboard
All at sea
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All hands on deck
All hands to the pump
Anchors aweigh
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Batten down the hatches
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Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
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Britannia rules the waves
By and large
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Clap him in irons
Clear the decks
Come about
Cut and run
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Davy Jones' locker
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Don't make waves
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
Flotsam and jetsam
Full fathom five
Go by the board
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In the offing
Jolly jack tar
Know the ropes
Land
ahoy
Learn the ropes
Loose cannon
Messing about in boats
Nautical mile
On the fiddle
Pipe down
Plain
sailing
Rear admiral (
naval
rank )
Sailing
under false colours
Set sail
Shake a leg
Ship shape and Bristol fashion
Shiver me timbers
Shot across the bows
Show a leg
Smooth
sailing
Son of a gun
Sound out
Swing the lead
Taken aback
The Adventure of the
Naval
Treaty ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The bitter end
The deep blue sea
The few, the proud, the Marines ( United States
Marine
Corps advertising slogan )
Three sheets to the wind
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Walk the plank
Women and children first
You know what sailors are