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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
Abandon ship
Accelerate your life ( US
Navy
advertising slogan )
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
Anchor
man
Anchors aweigh
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Batten down the hatches
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Belay there
Between the Devil and the deep blue
sea
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Boat
person
Boat
race ( Cockney rhyming slang for face )
Booze cruise
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Britannia rules the waves
Burst a blood
vessel
Cast
anchor
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
Duncan the Wonder Horse ( Nickname of TV news
anchor
Tom Brokaw )
Extend the hand of
friendship
Failure to
launch
Fleet
footed
Fleet
of foot
Flotsam and jetsam
Fresh off the
boat
From chips to
ships
( Hyundai advertising slogan )
From
sea
to shining
sea
From stem to stern
Full fathom five
George
Raft
( Cockney rhyming slang for daft )
Getting there is half the fun ( Cunard Line advertising slogan )
Go by the board
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Go down with the ship
Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong ( Pan-American Coffee Bureau advertising slogan )
Group hug ( a hug shared as an expression of
friendship
or solidarity )
Hands across the
sea
Hard aport
Hard astarboard
Hatch, match and
dispatch
Hello
sailor
Hit the
deck
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 is not a lack of love, but a lack of
friendship
that makes unhappy marriages ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )
Jolly jack tar
Jump ship
Junk
Yard Dog ( Nickname of Jerome Williams )
Junk
bond
Junk
food
Junk
mail
Keep an even
keel
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
Loose lips sink
ships
( World War II advertising slogan )
Maiden voyage
Miss the
boat
Mother ship
Mr. Midshipman Easy
Mutiny on the Bounty ( Marlon Brando movie )
My ship has come in
Navy
blue
Not dealing from a full
deck
Not playing with a full
deck
Ocean going
On an even
keel
On board
On
deck
( A baseball expression meaning next in line )
On the fiddle
One
liner
POSH - Port out, starboard home ( false attribution of the origin of the word posh )
Pipe down
Push the
boat
out
Raise the wind
Red Sails In The Sunset ( Al Bowlly song )
Row, row, row your
boat
Run a tight ship
Sailing under false colours
Sailor's farewell
Save our souls
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
Ships
of the desert
Ships
that pass in the night
Shiver me timbers
Shot across the bows
Show a leg
Sloop John B ( Beach Boys song )
Son of a gun
Sound out
Stacked
deck
Sun,
sea
and sand
Sweep the
deck
Swing the lead
Taken aback
That ship has sailed
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 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 bitter end
The boy stood on the burning
deck
The deep blue
sea
The face that launched a thousand
ships
The start of a beautiful
friendship
The sun is over the yardarm
There's plenty more fish in the
sea
This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
Three sheets to the wind
Transport
of delight
Twenty thousand leagues under the
sea
Walk the plank
We're gonna need a bigger
boat
( Jaws advertising tagline )
Weigh
anchor
Whatever floats your
boat
Women and children first
You know what sailors are
You're going to need a bigger
boat
( Jaws )