whatever floats your boat
phraseEtymology
The earliest evidence hints that the phrase originated in the late 1970s among pleasure boaters in the United States.
Definitions
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