| 单词 | row in the same boat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sail (also pull, row) in the same boat b. to sail (also pull, row) in the same boat: to act together or in concert; to adopt the same position on a matter; to pursue the same ends. ΚΠ 1807 Monthly Mirror May 341 Don't you row in the same boat with that fellow! 1825 Oriental Herald June 611 Let us inquire, therefore, how far your ideas in that respect were well-founded, and whether these said Directors be, as is supposed, sailing in the same boat with you. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Let. 13 July (1945) II. 681 I don't think I ought to pull in the same boat with such a savage little Robespierre. 1876 A. Trollope Prime Minister IV. xviii. 303 Lest in my absence he should feel it incumbent on himself to sail in the same boat with his late colleague. 1900 Railroad Telegrapher June 508/2 Employer and labor were sailing in the same boat. 1993 Denver Post 9 May 12 h/2 A corporate identity program is an extremely inexpensive investment for what you get back, which is everyone pulling in the same boat in the same direction. 2008 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 12 June The UPA and the NDA both sail in the same boat in these matters. to row in the same (also in one) boat a. to row in the same (also in one) boat: (of two or more people) to be engaged in the same project or scheme; to share a common outlook or situation. Cf. to be in the same boat at boat n.1 Phrases 3a. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (intransitive)] jousta1325 ally?a1400 joinc1400 associe1441 confederc1460 to stick together1525 band1530 to join forces1560 colleaguec1565 alliance1569 to enter league1578 unite1579 interleague1590 confederate1591 to join hands1598 combine1608 injointa1616 combinda1626 bandy1633 comply1646 federate1648 leaguea1649 associate1653 coalesce1657 to understand each other1663 sociate1688 to row in the same (also in one) boat1787 rendezvous1817 to make common cause (with)1845 to sing the same song1846 cahoot1857 to gang up1910 jungle1922 1787 Sessions Papers Cent. Criminal Court Feb. 280 If you will row in one boat with us, and become an accomplice of mine, I will put some hundreds in your way. 1801 G. Hanger Life II. 347 This society (pardon the vulgarity of the expression!) all rowed in one boat, passing bills from one to the other. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 202 Row in the boat, to go snacks or have a share in the benefit arising from any transaction to which you are privy. 1962 F. O'Connor Let. 6 Sept. in Habit of Being (1979) 491 If I can lay my hands on it, I will send you an article about him and St. Thomas in which they are rowing in the same boat. 2007 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 21 Dec. sp 2 All the players..that made the list..have been added to the bad books... You are all now rowing in the same boat. < as lemmas |
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