单词 | to sail 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. < as lemmas |
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