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never sick at sea

never sick at sea phrase: having all the qualifications and abilities one could possibly ask for (or almost, anyway).

Phrase

never sick at sea

  1. 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.1901, Ménie Muriel Dowie, Love and His Mask, page 106
    • My final thought on all of my local and national on-air colleagues that I've befriended and respected for all these decades: I'm not knocking them, but while most morning show hosts and radio and TV sportscasters and anchors went home to their wives and kids an hour or more outside of Toronto to...2017, John Gallagher, Big League Babble On

Origin of never sick at sea

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!

Questions about never sick at sea

What does never sick at sea mean?
Never sick at sea means having all the qualifications and abilities one could possibly ask for (or almost, anyway).
What part of speech is never sick at sea?
Never sick at sea is a phrase.

Words near never sick at sea in the dictionary

  1. never minds
  2. Never Never
  3. never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
  4. never say die
  5. never say never
  6. never sick at sea
  7. never smoker
  8. never smokers
  9. never start a land war in Asia
  10. never the twain shall meet
  11. never the wiser

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