whatever floats your boat

phrase

Etymology

The earliest evidence hints that the phrase originated in the late 1970s among pleasure boaters in the United States.

Definitions

  1. One should do whatever stimulates one or suits one's inclinations.

    • You can achieve a non-ordinary or altered state with drugs, drumming, dancing, fasting, meditation, whatever floats your boat—floats it into the beyond, that is.
    • You can fill your life with love / You can fill your life with owt / You can fill your lifе with food and drink / Or whatever floats your boat

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for whatever floats your boat. 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