never sick at sea
phraseEtymology
A phrase that comes from a verse in H.M.S. Pinafore, an 1878 comic opera: Captain: I am never known to quail At the fury of a gale, and I'm never, never sick at sea! All: What, never? Captain: No, never! All: What, never? Captain: Hardly ever!
Definitions
Having all the qualifications and abilities one could possibly ask for (or almost, anyway)
- Claude Augustus had not been in prison, so he said; was not a bigamist, was never sick at sea, and all those things they ask Tommies were all right about him, anyhow.
- Farmington School is forever endeared to us for having given us a sailoress secretary, who is 'never never sick at sea,' and is a member of our family—Miss Eleanor Cushman, of New Bedrord whaling ancestry.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for never sick at sea. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA