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Reply Thu 15 Jul, 2004 09:01 pm
what is the origin of the phrase "missed the Boat" I was told that this was a racial degredation ?
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Reply Thu 15 Jul, 2004 09:42 pm
I did a google search, and found multiple sites that say the phrase "miss the boat" is of nautical origin. This one's typical: "to miss the boat in the fig. sense of "be too late for" is from 1929, originally nautical slang."
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